‘Why include Yemi Alade’s Johnny song in basic 3 book?’

A Ghanaian parent has taken to social media to express displeasure with the Ghana Education Service, accusing them of overloading her child with studies.

In a post shared on X on September 25, 2025, the unidentified lady slammed the GES for including the entire lyrics of Nigerian singer Yemi Alade’s “Jonny” song as part of the syllabus.

She explained that the workload was already too much for her 7-year-old class 3 pupil and questioned why a song with adult themes was featured in a text book for minors.

“I have a problem, and in my opinion, it’s a very serious problem, so this textbook here is the creative arts book for the basic three, that’s my daughter’s textbook first and foremost. The book is too big. I’m going through the book to see what at all it says that the kids are supposed to be learning in the basic three from such a big book, and then I came across this page where it’s talking about Afrobeats.

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“I think it’s bad enough. The whole lyrics of the song Journey by Yemi Alade are in the book, word for word, in a class three child’s book, my daughter is just seven years old,” she said.

She also called on the Ghana Education Service to revisit its curriculum and cross-check what is published in the textbooks for students in the country.

“You will agree with me that a seven-year-old child. Should have no business being exposed to this, like in school at that age? Like, really, there’s so much else you can teach the kids than Johnny. Oh my goodness.

“GES needs to set up the curriculum. If you don’t have anything to teach the kids, like, I don’t know, do something else,” she added.

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