Popular media personality Deloris Frimpong Manso alias Delay has said that the constant speaking of the local dialect Twi has made the language more prestigious in the country.
According to Delay, when she joined the media space some years ago, she realized that the number of media houses that used the local dialect was just a few. She disclosed that it made her to use Twi on the radio although she was blasted for doing so at that time.
Speaking in an interview with Kumasi-based Pure FM, ‘Bar4Bar’, hosted by Kojo Sebor, Delay said that when she started her show in the local dialect on radio some years back, she was tagged as a “villager and weird”.
“Of course, of course, I will boldly chest out to say I have made Twi language usage prestigious on the airwaves. When I came on television the first time, years ago, some people tagged me as a villager and illiterate for speaking Twi.”
“At that time, the likes of Maame Dokono and some oldies were frequenting the Twi language while for the youngsters, the English Language was the thing”, Delay said.
According to Delay, her choice of language on the radio back then made her look like the weird one in the midst of the birds.
“The likes of Wolf, Caroline Simpson, Jeremy, Doreen Andoh, and other known faces were all English Speakers and I was like the weird person.”
“But today, corporate brands like Coca-Cola, Vodafone, and Ideal Milk are all going along with some appealing Twi slogans for advertisement purposes. Twi has become the new flex,” She mentioned.
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In addition, she said, “I believe it is the way to go because Germans don’t speak English and Italians don’t speak Turkish. So we need to accept what we have and be proud of it.”
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