Culture and tradition is the beauty inherent in us and a source of vitality and energy.
Many of our daily activities resonate with the spirit of culture and tradition. For insurance, when we try to do our best, we are seeking to create beauty, when you tidy and clean your room, we are striving to create beauty to transform the room. Such is the power of culture.
To begin with, simple campus life in a university is characterised by individuals who want to study and create something of value.
So what is our schools and universities campus culture? Our schools and universities academic culture lead us to be creative and be confident.
On March 6, 1957, the first African socialist revolution commenced. With an estimated population of six million, the tiny new country, Ghana, captivated the globe’s attention. Its first prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), confidently claimed that Ghana would “show that after all the black man was capable of managing his own affairs.
Currently, capitalism with Ghanaian characteristics has crossed our culture into something else. Highlighting cultural confidence is not our goal and even campus culture in Ghanaian institutions of higher learning are just concern with fame, that is the only culture we adhere to.
Of course, to fully appreciate the great work of our culture and tradition and re- construct and adhere to the orientation of advanced socialist culture, then the inheritance and innovation of fine traditional Ghanaian culture, and the principle of fostering virtue through education and focus on the project on the inheritance and innovation of fine Ghanaian culture so as to establish cultural confidence; attach importance to the education of fine traditional Ghanaian culture.
“With decades of capitalism, Ghanaian characteristics that emphasise communal values such as family, respect for the elderly, honouring traditional rulers, and the importance of dignity and proper social conduct. Individual conduct is seen as having impact on an entire family, social group and community; family obligations take precedence over everything else in life and has risen to unproductive heights, forgetting that “Culture is a country and nation’s soul.
Ghana will thrive only if our culture thrives, and our nation will be strong only if our culture is strong. Without full confidence in our culture, without a rich and prosperous culture, the Ghanaian nation will not be able to rejuvenate itself.”
As an important part of Ghana’s social culture that includes the shared practices, values, norms, and behaviours common to the members of the society, institutions of higher learning should also make it their missions in the cause of their college education and universities institutions to succeed in the Ghanaian characteristics.
In the tasks of constructing a fine Ghanaian culture and prospering and developing an advanced socialism culture, institutions of higher learning are facing the huge issue of moving with the times and strengthening the construction of campus culture that highlights cultural confidence.
In Africa, why are many educated people so unreasonable?
One problem may be that Africans lack the spirituality in which a heartfelt appreciation for the true essence of our culture can be cultivated.
Under such circumstances, sometimes those educated people who can speak English become arrogant, forgetting that their speaking of English is all they know.
For example, many Ghanaian English speakers imagine themselves somehow superior because they can speak English, and other Ghanaians cannot.
They are more mature in their English theories than the practice of the values we hold as a nation.
The academic ethics refers to all the norms and regulations that should be abided by all the people in the academic study and academic activities. It is mainly employed to deal with the relationship between individuals, the relationships between people and society, people and nature.
It mainly includes the norms of academic research, the norms of academic evaluation and the norms of academic criticism. The innovative spirits and scientific spirits should be united in academic research. The academic evaluation should be based on the facts and also adhere to the principles of objectivity, justice and accuracy.
It is said that creativity is an eternal trend of culture that we should exhale the old and inhale the new. University is an antenna and passageway to approach heterogeneous culture, and it is the basis of creating a new culture. As a part of campus culture, undergraduates should be able to fully develop their wisdom, imagination and creativity and make campus culture colourful, since they have a sharp mind, active thinking, and enthusiasm to seek their ideal and creativity. THANK YOU TSASI.
