March 28, 2026
The Marriage of Anansewa by Efua T Sutherland is a four arts drama book about poverty, peer pressure, greediness and estreme parental control.
ANASEWA: The beautiful daughter of George Ananse, a very dubious man.
ANANSE: (with cunning): Supposing it isn't some old chief but the finely built glowing black, large-eyed, handsome as anything, courageous and famous Chief-Who-is-Chief?
Ananse the cunning spider man is the hero of count-less Ghanaian legends. But this Ananse gets entangled in his own web of deceit when his scheme to get rich quick backfires, and disaster stares him in the face. The only way out is for his daughter to die.
Efua T. Sutherland has done great deal to encourage the theatre in Ghana. She began the Ghana Experimental Theatre and the Ghana. Drama Studio, and has written many plays for adult and children, in-cluding Edufa. Also published in Drumbeat.
Efua Theodora Sutherland was a playwright and poet from Ghana who lived between 27 June 1924 and 2nd January 1996. Her most popular work of art is The Marriage of Anansewa (1975).
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