15 Facts About Akosua Busia

Akosua Gyamama Busia was born on 30 December 1966 and is a Ghanaian actress, writer and songwriter.

Akosua Busia is known to film audiences for playing Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple.

Akosua Busia is the daughter of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia.

Akosua Busia is the daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, who was prime minister of the Republic of Ghana and a prince of the royal family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti, making Akosua a princess too.

Akosua Busia's sister, Abena Busia, is a poet and academic, who was a professor in English at Rutgers University, and since 2017 has been the Ghanaian ambassador to Brazil.

Akosua Busia's first acting role was as Juliet in an otherwise white cast, performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Oxford University, where her siblings were studying.

Akosua Busia made her film debut in the 1979 adventure film Ashanti, with Michael Caine and Peter Ustinov.

Akosua Busia starred in Hard Lessons alongside Denzel Washington and Lynn Whitfield in 1986.

Akosua Busia played Nettie, the younger sister of Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie Harris, in Steven Spielberg's 1985 The Color Purple, adapted from Alice Walker's novel of the same title, as Ruth in Badge of the Assassin, as Jewel in John Singleton's Rosewood, and as Patience in Antoine Fuqua's Tears of the Sun.

Akosua Busia has appeared on television in the series ER.

Akosua Busia was one of three co-writers for the screenplay adaptation of Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved for the 1998 film version of the same name directed by Jonathan Demme.

In 2008, Akosua Busia directed a film about her father: The Prof.

Akosua Busia co-wrote the song "Moon Blue" with Stevie Wonder for his album A Time 2 Love, released in 2005.

In 2024 Akosua Busia released the drama film In Search of a Blessed Life: He Who Hath, which was inspired by the book He that Hath, to Him Shall Be Given by Dag Heward-Mills.

Akosua Busia co-founded with her sister Abena Busia the Busia Foundation International, aiming "to provide assistance to the disadvantaged".