STORY: Students of Chinese language in Ghana resume annual week celebration after COVID-19 disruption
DATELINE: July 5, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:02
LOCATION: Accra
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of participants
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HERBERT APPIATU DANQUAH, President of Chinese Students Association at University of Ghana
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): PRINCE AKANTOGDAAM, Former president of Chinese Students Association at University of Ghana
4. various of participants

STORYLINE:

Students learning the Chinese language at the University of Ghana resumed their annual week celebration Monday after a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19.

During a launching ceremony, Herbert Appiatu Danquah, president of the Chinese Students Association at the University of Ghana, told Xinhua that the celebration, now in its 14th year, will continue contributing to deepening the cultural relations between Ghana and China while igniting interest in the Chinese language among Ghanaians.

Danquah said the week-long activities would bring alumni of Chinese language studies, experts in Sino-African relations and individuals who have worked with the Chinese fraternity to address the students on Ghana-China relations.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): HERBERT APPIATU DANQUAH, President of Chinese Students Association at University of Ghana
"We believe this through the engagements with the various alumni, also the engagements with other students, with our lectures and various experts, it will come together and act as a compound or bond to create a further narrative or path for the strengthening of the relationship between Ghana and China."

Prince Akantogdaam, a former president of the association, said he is glad that the celebrations return to the university, adding that students' craze for the Chinese language has grown fast in recent years.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): PRINCE AKANTOGDAAM, Former president of Chinese Students Association at University of Ghana
"My time, when I came, the whole class I think we were about 120. But the following year, the number increased to about 300."

Akantogdaam added that the number of students learning Chinese in the university has reached about 1,000.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Accra.
(XHTV)