A collection of verses and photographs about children of Ghana at play. Ghanian playwright, dramatist, children's author, and cultural activist Efua Sutherland was an extraordinarily influential figure in the development of modern Ghanaian theatre, and helped to introduce the study of African performance traditions at the university level. She was a cultural advocate for children from the early 1950s until her death, and played a role in developing educational literature, theatre and film for and about Ghanaian children. Her 1960 photo essay Playtime in Africa, co-authored with Willis E. Bell, highlighted the centrality of play in children’s development and was the first real documentation of children’s play in the newly independent African nation. Sutherland was part of a post colonial cultural renaissance, a storyteller, an educator, a playwright and a community builder. Bell, an ex-patriated American, was in the process of establishing himself as a leading documentary photographer in the country. His work is considered to be an important part of Ghana’s visual arts culture.
