Abena Busia

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Full Name	Abena Busia
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1953(1953-04-28)
Age	71
Birthplace	Ghana
Country	Ghana
Horoscope	Taurus

Abena Busia Biography

Abena Busia is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on April 28, 1953 in Ghana, Ghana. Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of former Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia. Abena Busia is an associate professor of Literature in English, and of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. She is currently Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil, appointed in 2017, with accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.

In March 2011, marking the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the AWDF recognised Abena Busia as one of 50 inspirational African feminists, with a public celebration in her honour taking place in June at the National Theatre in Accra.

She 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.

Busia was co-director of the Women Writing Africa Project (which between 2002 and 2008 published the four-volume Women Writing Africa Series), as well as Professor of English at Rutgers University and the Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Abena Busia Net Worth

Abena Busia is one of the richest Writer from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abena Busia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abena Busia earned a B.A. degree in English language and literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, in 1976, and a D.Phil. in social anthropology (race relations) at St. Antony’s College in 1984. She 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. She has also 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.

Busia has published widely on black women’s literature, colonial discourse, and post-colonial studies. Scholarly books she has co-edited include Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women (1993) and Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life (1999). In addition, she is the author of two volumes of poetry: Testimonies of Exile (1990) and Traces of Life (2008). Her work is included in such anthologies as Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, 1992).

In July 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Abena Busia as Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil. She was among 22 other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various diplomatic Ghanaian missions in the world.

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