Abena Pokua Adompim Busia was born on 1953 and is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat.
12 Facts About Abena Busia
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Abena Busia is a daughter of the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia.
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Abena Busia is Ghana's ambassador to Brazil, appointed in 2017, with accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.
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Abena Busia spent her childhood in Ghana as well as in the Netherlands and Mexico before relocating to Oxford, where her family finally settled.
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Abena Busia has been an external tutor at Ruskin College, the labour relations college affiliated to the University of Oxford, and a visiting lecturer in the Program of African and Afro-American Studies at Yale University.
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Abena Busia has won a number of post-doctoral fellowships including an Andrew Mellon Fellowship in the English department of Bryn Mawr College, and an Institute for American Cultures Fellowship at the Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA.
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Abena Busia was co-director of the Women Writing Africa Project, as well as Professor of English at Rutgers University and the Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.
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Abena Busia has taught at other institutions, among them Yale and the University of Ghana.
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Abena Busia has served as president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and of the African Literature Association, and currently chairs the board of AWDF-USA, sister organization of the African Women's Development Fund, the first pan-African foundation to support the work of women's rights organisations in Africa.
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Abena Busia has published widely on black women's literature, colonial discourse, and post-colonial studies.
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Abena Busia was among 22 other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various diplomatic Ghanaian missions in the world.
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Abena Busia is co-founder and Chair of the Busia Foundation International, a non-government organisation set up in honour of Ghana's former Prime Minister, Kofi Abrefa Busia, the 40th anniversary of whose death was marked by a public memorial lecture on 28 August 2018 at the Accra International Conference Centre.