A Passionate Appeal to The Government of Ghana: Invest in Local Animation to Shape the Future of Ghanaian Children

Open Letter To the Hon. Minister for Education, Hon. Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture,
Hon. Minister for Information,
And each stakeholders successful kid development.

I constitute arsenic a genitor and acrophobic national who has witnessed an overlooked but almighty unit shaping the minds of our children: animated content.

Every time crossed Ghana, children arsenic young arsenic 6 months to 7 years aged walk hours watching animated videos, mostly connected YouTube, YouTube Kids, and television. But the contented they devour is astir wholly foreign. Cocomelon, Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Blippi, Baby Shark, Little Angel and these are the voices, characters, and cultures that are shaping our children’s habits, language, worldview, and identity.

They sing nursery rhymes with American and British accents. They larn astir snow, pumpkins, Halloween, and Santa Claus, yet galore person ne'er heard of Homowo, Aboakyer, Adae, oregon the contented of Ananse stories. They’re learning politeness, order, and assurance from fictional worlds that bespeak nary of our section realities.

This isn’t conscionable entertainment. It is education. It is immoderate of the astir influential acquisition children person during their astir formative years.

Ghana indispensable enactment now. I americium respectfully appealing to the Government of Ghana to pb and money a nationalist inaugural to make high-quality Ghanaian animation and acquisition contented for children aged 0 to 7.

This contented must:
Reflect our values, languages, culture, and environment.

Be disposable connected YouTube, YouTube Kids, and different planetary platforms wherever children already walk time.

Be distributed freely connected nationalist TV, determination stations, and acquisition portals.

Be designed successful collaboration with teachers, kid psychologists, taste experts, animators, and musicians

Be formally adopted into kindergartens, pre-schools, and little superior classrooms arsenic portion of teaching materials

Be accessible successful some English and large section Ghanaian languages specified arsenic Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani, Nzema, and Fante.

Our children merit to spot themselves represented connected screens. They request to perceive their parent tongue, spot their civilization celebrated, and larn foundational values similar respect, responsibility, teamwork, and honesty done stories that marque consciousness to them.

Animation is 1 of the astir effectual tools for aboriginal puerility development, but outer cultures presently predominate it. If we don’t measurement successful now, we hazard raising a procreation emotionally connected to everyplace but home.

Let america larn from the USA, UK, and adjacent Nigeria, which are countries investing heavy successful media for young minds. Ghana has originative talent, folklore, music, language, and wisdom. What we request is vision, funding, and nationalist enactment to marque it happen.

This is not a luxury project. It is simply a strategical concern in:
Language retention,
Cultural identity,
Moral values,
Early education,

And the semipermanent intelligence and affectional wellness of Ghana’s adjacent generation.

Let america not hold for others to specify our children’s heroes. Let Ghanaian children turn up learning from characters that dependable similar them, formal similar them, unrecorded similar them, and thatch values grounded successful our context.

The aboriginal is digital. Our power starts with the contented they see. Ghana indispensable beryllium contiguous early, boldly, and intentionally.

Respectfully,
Stephen Mensah
A Concerned Ghanaian Parent
May 2025