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Ghanaian Sign Language
The sign language of deaf people taught in the schools and used in the urban centers of Ghana, descended from American Sign Language.
It was introduced in 1957 by Andrew Jackson Foster (1925–1987), the Gallaudet of Africa. Previously Jackson became the first Deaf African American to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet College and the first to earn a master's degree from Eastern Michigan University. He soon earned a second master's degree from Seattle Pacific Christian College (now called Seattle Pacific University). He founded Christian Mission for the Deaf African in 1956 and eventually set out for Accra, Ghana, where he established the first school for the deaf on the entire continent of Africa. Eventually he founded more schools than the famous Gallaudet.
There are fifteen schools for the Deaf in Ghana; twelve are primary and junior level basic schools and two of them are senior secondary and technical and vocational education. There is at least one school in each region in the country.
GSL differs from American Sign Language in lexicon. There are new and local signs, and some modified from ASL. GSL generally uses a lot of initialized signs. You will enjoy using this dictionary.
