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Power

• Colonised by Britain (Foundation) until it’s independence in 1957
• RP seen as prestigious way of speaking in Ghana whilst it was under British rule (Exonormative stabilisation). Mispronunciations would be corrected </aside>

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Identity

• Recent years : significant anti-colonialism movement. Efforts to remove RP from common usage viewing it as a symbol of oppression and relic of the past. (Endonormative stabilisation)new standards arise through popular culture - taking control of own identity
• Now, many Ghanaians speak their own form of English with their own unique style (Differentiation) </aside>

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Ghanaian English has significantly different phonological characteristics to RP e.g. omission of consonants at the end of words (stan’ from stand)

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