# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/efua-theodora-sutherland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:57:29.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/efua-theodora-sutherland"
name: "Efua Theodora Sutherland"
slug: "efua-theodora-sutherland"
description: "Efua Theodora Sutherland was a Ghanaian playwright, director, dramatist, children's author, poet, educationalist, researcher, child advocate, and cultural activist. Her works include the plays Foriwa (1962), Edufa (1967), and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975). She founded the Ghana Drama Studio, the Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre, and a community project called the Kodzidan. As Ghana's earliest playwright-director, she was an influential figure in the development of modern Ghanaian theatre, and helped to introduce the study of African performance traditions at university level. She was also a pioneering African publisher, establishing the company Afram Publications in Accra in the 1970s. Sutherland was instrumental in nurturing a new generation of Ghanaian playwrights and poets through the Drama Studio, many of whom went on to shape modern West African literature."
tagline: "Ghanaian writer (1924-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Efua_Theodora_Sutherland.jpg"
gender: "female"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-06-27"
deathDate: "1996-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 184
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump