Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Eric Edem Agbana, has announced plans to formally petition the Ghana Education Service (GES) to urgently review and withdraw copies of the Aki-Ola Junior High School Social Studies textbook, citing what he describes as “false and dehumanising content.”
In a statement dated February 17, 2026, Agbana—who also serves on Parliament’s Select Committee on Education—said he had reviewed images from the textbook that include troubling sections outlining supposed “benefits Ghana has derived from colonisation.” He condemned the material, arguing that it attempts to sanitise and glorify colonisation despite its destructive impact on Africans and Ghanaians. “At a time when President John Dramani Mahama is championing continental efforts toward reparations, it is deeply irresponsible to sanitize or glorify a painful chapter of our history,” Agbana stated.
He described colonisation as inhuman and a systematic violation of human rights, dignity and identity, warning that distorted narratives must not be allowed to shape the minds of Ghanaian children. To address the issue, the MP said his petition to the GES will call for an immediate review and recall of the books and the removal of such harmful perspectives from Ghana’s curriculum.
“Our education system must reflect truth, justice, and historical integrity. Not only that, but our education must also sustain a perspective of history that does not deny the past of the Ghanaian, misstate the present, and undermine the hopeful future of the Ghanaian child,” he added.
Source: Juliana Odame Asare
