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Ghanaian Sign Language is a variety of American Sign Language used as the national sign language of deaf people in Ghana. It was introduced in 1957 by Andrew Foster a deaf African-American missionary as there had been no education or organizations for the deaf previously. Foster went on to establish the first school for the deaf in Nigeria a few years later and Nigerian Sign Language shows influence from GSL.

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