Esi Sutherland-Addy

Esi Sutherland-Addy

human

Sex anaa gender	female
Country wey e be citizen	Ghana
Given name	Esi
Family name	Sutherland
Place dem born am	Ghana
Mummie	Efua Theodora Sutherland
Languages dem dey speak, wrep anaa sign	English
Occupation	academic, writer, teacher, activist
Employer	University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies University of Ghana
Position dem hold	Minister for Education
Educate for	Achimota School
Personal pronoun	L484

Esi Sutherland-Addy be Ghanaian academician, writer, educationalist, den human rights activist. She be professor for Institute of African Studies, wer she be senior research fellow, head of de Language, Literature, den Drama Section, den associate director of de African Humanities Institute Program for University of Ghana. Dem credit am plus more than 50 publications for de areas of education policy, higher education, female education, literature, theatre den culture, wey she dey serve on numerous committees, boards den commissions locally den internationally. She be de daughter of writer den cultural activist Efua Sutherland.

Ein Awards

Sutherland-Addy be de recipient for several awards, wey dey include Honorary Fellowship of de College of Preceptors, UK (1998), a Group Award by the Rockefeller Foundation (2001 den 2002) for de Women Writing Africa Project, Honorary Doctorate of Letters from de University of Education, Winneba (2004), den de Excellence for Distance Education Award insyd from de Commonwealth of Learning (2008).

Bibliography dem select

Editor

• (Editor) Perspectives on Mythology (Proceedings of a Conference organized by the Goethe-Institut and the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, between 21 and 24 October 1997), Goethe-Institut/Woeli Publ. Services, 1999. ISBN 9789964978549
• (Co-editor plus Aminata Diaw) Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2005. ISBN 978-1558615007.
• (Co-editor plus Anne V. Adams) The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism, Banbury: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9547023-1-1.
• (Plus Ama Ata Aidoo) Ghana, where the Bead Speaks, Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana, 2008. ISBN 9789988153601.
• (Co-editor plus Takyiwaa Manuh) Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for Undergraduate Students. Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2013. ISBN 9789988647377.

Papers

• "Gender Equity in Junior and Senior Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa", World Bank Publications, The World Bank, number 6500, November 2008.
• "Women, Intangible Heritage and Development: Perspectives from the African Region", ICH UNESCO.