#efua sutherland

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EFUA T SUTHERLAND: AFRICA`S FEMALE PIONEER DRAMATIST, CULTURAL VISIONARY AND ACTIVIST AND "BLACK AFRICA`S MOST FAMOUS WOMAN WRITER"

Dr Efua Theodora Sutherland (27 June 1924—2 January 1996) was a celebrated Ghanaian playwright, director, children's author, poet and pionee...

“ Apart from her undying devotion to building indigenous models of excellence in culture and education, she served as mentor and inspiration to many notable African personalities in the arts and professions, including writer Ama Ata Aidoo, film maker Kwaw Ansah and writer-illustrator Meshak Asare. Auntie Efua, as she was affectionately known, made children’s issues central to her life and work. After pioneering an indigenous movement in writing, publishing and development through drama for children, she was appointed in the 1980’s to lead Ghana to become the first country to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Declaration of Rights of the Child.  Through the work of the Ghana National Commission on Children, of which she was a founding member and Chair, several initiatives for children were moved forward including the Children’s Park Library Complex network,  Child Literacy and Mobile Science Laboratory projects, as well as the commissioning of extensive research on the Ghanaian child”.

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There was a woman long ago, Tell that maud, tell that maid, There was a woman long ago, She would not marry Kwesi, She would not marry Kwaw, She would not, would not, would not. One day she came home with hurrying feet, I've found the man, the man, the man, Tell that maid, tell that maid, Her man looked like a chief, Tell that maid, tell that maid, Her man looked like a chief, Most splendid to see, But he turned into a python, He turned into a python And swallowed her up. —Efua [Morgue Theodora] Sutherland (1924-1996). The above is a song in her lyrical short story "New Life at Kyerefaso" (1958, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation). The African Assertion: A Critical Anthology of African Literature. Ed. Austin J. Shelton. NY: The Odyssey Press, 1968.

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Efua Sutherland, director and playwright.

In 1958, she founded the Ghana Experimental Theatre Company. 

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Efua Sutherland (GHANA)

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