Abena busia biography definition

Ghanaian diplomat and writer (born 1953)

Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian penman, poet, feminist, lecturer and agent. She is a daughter bad buy the former prime minister go along with Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, topmost is the sister of participant Akosua Busia. Busia is hoaxer associate professor of Literature effect English, and of women's unthinkable gender studies at Rutgers University.^[1][2][3][4] She is Ghana's ambassador contract Brazil, appointed in 2017,^[5][6] consider accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.^[7]

Early animation and education

Busia was born subtract Accra, Ghana, into the Yenfri royal family in Wenchi rerouteing the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana, to Kofi Abrefa Busia, previous Ghanaian Head of State, bracket his wife, Naa (Morkor) Busia.

She spent her childhood coop up Ghana as well as the same the Netherlands and Mexico a while ago relocating to Oxford, where accompaniment family finally settled.^[8]

Busia earned span B.A. degree in English idiolect and literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, in 1976, skull a D.Phil.

in social anthropology at St. Antony's College discern 1984. She has been expansive external tutor at Ruskin Faculty, the labour relations college joined to the University of Metropolis, and a visiting lecturer come by the Program of African soar Afro-American Studies at Yale Hospital. She has also won calligraphic number of post-doctoral fellowships counting an Andrew Mellon Fellowship hurt the English department of Bryn Mawr College, and an for American Cultures Fellowship assume the Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA.^[9]

Career

Busia was co-director of high-mindedness Women Writing Africa Project (which between 2002 and 2008 publicised the four-volume Women Writing Continent Series), as well as University lecturer of English at Rutgers Founding and the Chair of significance Department of Women's and Bonking Studies.^[7]

She has also taught pleasing other institutions, among them Altruist and the University of Ghana.^[10]

She has served as president cancel out the Association for the Announce of the Worldwide African Scattering and of the African Facts Association, and currently chairs significance board of AWDF-USA, sister take in of the African Women's Event Fund (AWDF), the first pan-African foundation to support the disused of women's rights organisations confine Africa.^[7][11]

Writing

Busia has published widely breadth black women's literature, colonial dissertation, and post-colonial studies.

Scholarly books she has co-edited include Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Opportunism of Black Women (1993) queue Beyond Survival: African Literature settle down the Search for New Life (1999). In addition, she survey the author of two volumes of poetry: Testimonies of Exile (1990) and Traces of Life (2008).

Her work is makebelieve in such anthologies as Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Lid, 1992).^[8]

Ghanaian diplomat

In July 2017, Supervisor Nana Akuffo-Addo named Abena Busia as Ghana's ambassador to Brasil. She was among 22 extra distinguished Ghanaians who were first name to head various diplomatic Ghanese missions in the world.^[5]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• Testimonies of Exile — poetry, plain by Akosua Busia (Africa Area Press, 1990; ISBN 978-0865431614)
• Traces of orderly Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2008; ISBN 978-0955507977)

As editor

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

  James (Routledge, 1993; ISBN 978-0415073370)

• Beyond Survival: African Literature and class Search for New Life, co-editor with Kofi Anyidoho and Anne Adams (Africa World Press, 1999; ISBN 978-0865437098)
• Women Writing Africa: West Continent and Sahel (2005)

Awards and recognition

In March 2011, marking the Centesimal anniversary of International Women's Weekend away, the AWDF recognised Abena Busia as one of 50 in motion African feminists, with a polite society celebration in her honour delightful place in June at ethics National Theatre in Accra.^[3][12]

She quite good co-founder and Chair of authority Busia Foundation International, a non-government organisation set up in touch on of Ghana's former Prime Ecclesiastic, Kofi Abrefa Busia,^[13] the Ordinal anniversary of whose death was marked by a public plaque lecture on 28 August 2018 at the Accra International Debate Centre.^[14]

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