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Esi Sutherland-Addy Quotes

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Esi Reiter Sutherland 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.

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Everyone’s talent should be exercised for the good of the whole of society, because [w]hat we cannot buy is the spirit of originality and endeavour which makes a people dynamic and creative.

The Drama Studio came as a sudden answer to a problem I had been having, starting the theatre programme.

You will have a way which you would need to design the thing, you get to a climax and you need to stay up there and let people go home with that feeling of patriotism and so on.

I want to be able to look up as I walk and see dignity in the place of my birth. All of us should want that.

Suddenly in 1951 I started…creative writing seriously.

I suddenly saw …[w]e needed a programme to develop playwriting and…that led to… the Ghana Experimental Theatre.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Esi Sutherland-Addy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.