“Rules are Rules”: Discrimination and Calls For a More Inclusive Senior High School Education in Ghana

“Rules are Rules”: Discrimination and Calls For a More Inclusive Senior High School Education in Ghana

On March 19, 2021, Ras Aswad Nkrabea, a father of a young Rastafarian boy admitted to the Achimota Senior High School, posted to Facebook that his son, Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea, and another teenage boy, Tyron Iras Marhguy, had been denied enrollment because of their locks. The issue caught national attention, and heated debates ensued about the school’s right to enforce its rules and the student’s unfettered rights to access education as well as practice their religion and manifest its expression. Nii Kotei Nikoi explores how the broader import of this recent episode of discrimination reveals the systemic problem of inclusive education in Ghana.

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