DID YOU KNOW THIS?
Born in Cape Coast Efua Theodora Sutherland was born in Cape Coast on the 27 th of June 1924. She was a
playwright, dramatist, children’s author, poet, researcher child advocate and cultural activist. Her
body of work included The Marriage of Anansewa and Foriwa. She was the founder of the Ghana
Drama Studio, Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre and a project called
Kodzidan which means The Story House. She was the forerunner of influence in modern
Ghanaian theatre as well as a strong cultural advocate for children. She led the development of
model children’s parks in the country.
A record of the inward world, whose facts
Are thoughts—and feelings—fears, and hopes, and dreams.
There are some days that might outmeasure years—
Days that obliterate the past, and make
The future of the colour which they cast.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.
We marvel at ourselves—we would deny
That which is working in the hidden soul;
But the heart knows and trembles at the truth:
On such these records linger