Eric Edem Agbana (MP) to petition GES over colonization content in Aki-Ola textbook.
Eric Edem Agbana (MP) to petition GES over colonization content in Aki-Ola textbook.
The Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Eric Edem Agbana, has announced that he will formally petition the Ghana Education Service (GES) to immediately review and recall copies of the Aki-Ola Junior High School Social Studies textbook over what he describes as “false and dehumanising content”.
In a statement dated February 17, 2026, the MP who doubles as a member of Parliament’s select committee on Education said he had sighted images from pages of the Aki-Ola Series Social Studies Textbook, which he said contains disturbing sections seeking to outline “benefits Ghana has derived from colonization.”
Agbana condemned the content, arguing that it attempts to sanitise and glorify colonisation despite its devastating 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,” he 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.
