--The Toyin Falola Interviews: A Conversation with Honourable Kojo Yankah (Podcast, Part 2)
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In this segment, Honourable Kojo Yankah explained the importance of cultural relativism for Africans to adopt, and he also emphasized the fact that unity does not equate to ethnic and national identity. Kojo Yankah cited India as an example – that Indians do not throw away their culture anywhere and anytime. Their ways of worship, ways of relating to the world show the understanding of their spirituality as ancient. Their buildings, their structures are all different and ancient. The only thing they learnt from the West is technology. But Africa on the contrary, has thrown away its culture, and now trying to catch up with Western technology.
He further encouraged the new wave of Pan-Africanism to encourage African cultural Languages starting from the schools; to adopt and learn some of these languages for their own interest. "For now, English can be uniting us, but we should develop some of our indigenous languages."
Kojo Yankah described globalization in Pan-Africanism as a deal of uniting all countries in Africa versus other continents of the world, with strong force. "If all Africans can trade together and have one minister of trade negotiating with China, China will set up; the same with Europe and America". He confessed that each African country is too small to negotiate singlehandedly for supports, with the 'big powers' all over the continents.
Honourable Kojo Yankah is at the moment building a major museum in Ghana.
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Kojo Yankah is a multi-career Writer, Scholar, Journalist, Author, and the Founder of the African University College of Communication (originally known as the African Institute of Journalism and Communications). He was a member of parliament and minister of state in Ghana. He served in the national media commission and the Board of the New Times Corporation, and the Law Reform Commission.
Yankah practiced journalism for some time until he became Editor of the Daily Graphic. He was involved as a broadcaster in designing a program on Ghana television for the outside world. After being Director of Ghana Institute of Journalism for almost ten years before he went into parliament, he decided he would establish a school with a strong foundation in African Studies and History of Africa after coming out of government. In 1988, he was summoned to be part of the 30-member team of senior journalists from Africa to work with the United Nations to educate Namibians for an educational program before their independence.
Being a communication consultant and public relations expert, Kojo Yankah has served as the chairman of the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival of Arts & Culture (PANAFEST). He holds a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in English from the University of Ghana.
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