Esi Sutherland-Addy | |
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Born | Esi Reiter Sutherland Ghana |
Nationality | Ghanaian |
Education | Achimota School |
Occupation(s) | Academic, writer, educationalist, and human rights activist |
Organization(s) | Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana |
Parent(s) | Efua Sutherland and Bill Sutherland |
Esi Sutherland-Addy is a Ghanaian academic, writer, educationalist, and human rights activist. She is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, where she has been senior research fellow, head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section, and associate director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana. She is credited with more than 60 publications in the areas of education policy, higher education, female education, literature, theatre and culture,[1] and serves on numerous committees, boards and commissions locally and internationally.[2] She is the first daughter of writer and cultural activist Efua Sutherland.[3][4]