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Preface / Amowi Sutherland Phillips -- Introduction / Anne V. Adams and Esi Sutherland-Addy -- pt. 1. Efua Sutherland's artistic space -- The attainment of discovery: Efua Sutherland and the evolution of modern African drama / Ola Rotimi -- When Anansegoro begins to grow: reading Efua Sutherland three decades on / Biodun Jeyifo -- Kodzidan Mboguw: supplanted acts, displaced narratives, and the social logic of a trickster in the 'house of stories' / David Donkor -- The entrance of Ghanaian women into popular entertainment / John Collins -- Empowerment for gender equality through theatre: the case of Tuseme / Penina Mlama -- Efua Theodora Sutherland: Visionary pioneer of Ghanaian children's literature / Mabel Komasi -- Creating for and with children: Efua Sutherland's children's plays / Esi Sutherland-Addy --^
Meshack Asare: transforming folklore into children's literature / Jürgen Martini --Revis(it)ing ritual: The challenge to the virility of tradition in works by Efua Sutherland and 'fellow' African women writers / Anne V. Adams -- Dramatising the diaspora's return: Tess Onwueme's The missing face and Ama ata Aidoo's The dilemma of a ghost / Sandra Richards -- Hesitant homecomings in Hansberry's and Aidoo's first plays / John Lemly -- Introducing Daughters of Africa / Margaret Busby -- Selected bibliography on Efua Sutherland / James Gibbs -- pt. 2. Efua Sutherland and cultural activism -- 'Here, then, is Efua': Sutherland and the drama studio / Robert July -- Kodzidan / Sandy Arkhurst -- The Ghana national commission on children / Comfort Caulley Hanson -- Architecture: spatial deployment for community experience (encounter with Efua T. Sutherland) / H.N.A. Wellington --^
Pan-African partnership on children's literature: reminiscences of a diaspora educator / Vivian Windley --'There's a lot of strength in our people': Efua Sutherland's last interview / Femi Osofisan -- pt. 3. Reminiscences and tributes -- 'Tommy' (Efua Sutherland) / Michael McMullan -- My mentor / Florence Laast -- Efua Theodora Sutherland: a personal reflection / William Branch -- Reaching out to your Africa: obituary of Efua Sutherland / Margaret Busby -- Tribute to a sister / Maya Angelou -- Mother courage: a tribute to auntie Efua from all her children in the arts / Kofi Anyidoho -- The pathfinder (for auntie Efua at Araba Mansa) / Margaret Busby -- Spirit of the red earth: remembering Efua / Margaret (Peggy) Watts -- An interrogation of an academic kind: an essay / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Appendix: Efua Theodora Sutherland: a life in brief -- Dr Efua Sutherland (a biographical sketch) / Kofi Anyidoho -- Chronology / Amowi Sutherland Phillips.