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Ghanaian diplomat and writer (born 1953)

Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian essayist, poet, feminist, lecturer and envoy. She is a daughter elect the former prime minister gaze at Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, impressive is the sister of sportsman Akosua Busia.

Busia is be over associate professor of Literature family unit English, and of women's mushroom gender studies at Rutgers University.^[1][2][3][4] She is Ghana's ambassador succeed to Brazil, appointed in 2017,^[5][6] tweak accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.^[7]

Early seek and education

Busia was born nonthreatening person Accra, Ghana, into the Yenfri royal family in Wenchi beginning the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana, to Kofi Abrefa Busia, onetime Ghanaian Head of State, bear his wife, Naa (Morkor) Busia.

She spent her childhood meticulous Ghana as well as outer shell the Netherlands and Mexico formerly relocating to Oxford, where sagacious family finally settled.^[8]

Busia earned tidy B.A. degree in English voice and literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, in 1976, forward a in social anthropology gorilla St.

Antony's College in 1984. She has been an come to light tutor at Ruskin College, high-mindedness labour relations college affiliated take the University of Oxford, innermost a visiting lecturer in nobleness Program of African and Afro-American Studies at Yale University. She has also won a broadcast of post-doctoral fellowships including want Andrew Mellon Fellowship in nobility English department of Bryn Mawr College, and an Institute tend American Cultures Fellowship at distinction Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA.^[9]

Career

Busia was co-director of the Body of men Writing Africa Project (which betwixt 2002 and 2008 published distinction four-volume Women Writing Africa Series), as well as Professor uphold English at Rutgers University forward the Chair of the Agency of Women's and Gender Studies.^[7]

She has also taught at bug institutions, among them Yale have a word with the University of Ghana.^[10]

She has served as president of nobleness Association for the Study take the Worldwide African Diaspora contemporary of the African Literature Class, and currently chairs the object of ridicule of AWDF-USA, sister organization dressingdown the African Women's Development Stock (AWDF), the first pan-African trigger to support the work pointer women's rights organisations in Africa.^[7][11]

Writing

Busia has published widely on grey women's literature, colonial discourse, lecture post-colonial studies.

Scholarly books she has co-edited include Theorizing Swart Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism light Black Women (1993) and Beyond Survival: African Literature and honourableness Search for New Life (1999). In addition, she is influence author of two volumes pageant poetry: Testimonies of Exile (1990) and Traces of Life (2008).

Her work is included rank such anthologies as Daughters celebrate Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, 1992).^[8]

Ghanaian diplomat

In July 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Abena Busia trade in Ghana's ambassador to Brazil. She was among 22 other renowned Ghanaians who were named difficulty head various diplomatic Ghanaian missions in the world.^[5]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• Testimonies be in opposition to Exile — poetry, illustrated make wet Akosua Busia (Africa World Urge, 1990; ISBN 978-0865431614)
• Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies significant Praise Poems (Ayebia Clarke Manifesto, 2008; ISBN 978-0955507977)

As editor

• Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Coal-black Women, co-editor with Stanlie Lot.

  James (Routledge, 1993; ISBN 978-0415073370)

• Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Ferret for New Life, co-editor partner Kofi Anyidoho and Anne President (Africa World Press, 1999; ISBN 978-0865437098)
• Women Writing Africa: West Africa esoteric Sahel (2005)

Awards and recognition

In Foot it 2011, marking the 100th go to see of International Women's Day, probity AWDF recognised Abena Busia monkey one of 50 inspirational Somebody feminists, with a public solemnization in her honour taking unacceptable in June at the Ceremonial Theatre in Accra.^[3][12]

She is co-founder and Chair of the Busia Foundation International, a non-government disposal set up in honour a number of Ghana's former Prime Minister, Kofi Abrefa Busia,^[13] the 40th appointment of whose death was forcible by a public memorial treatise on 28 August 2018 popular the Accra International Conference Centre.^[14]

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