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Abena Busia

Ghanaian diplomat and writer (born )

Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born ) is a Ghanaian journalist, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia.

Biography – Albert Einstein: Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born ) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, and is the sister of actress Akosua Busia.

Busia is an associate professor of Literature in English, and of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.[1][2][3][4] She is Ghana's envoy to Brazil, appointed in ,[5][6] with accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.[7]

Early life and education

Busia was born in Accra, Ghana, into the Yenfri royal family in Wenchi in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana, to Kofi Abrefa Busia, one-time Ghanaian Head of Declare, and his wife, Naa (Morkor) Busia.

She spent her childhood in Ghana as well as in the Netherlands and Mexico before relocating to Oxford, where her family finally settled.[8]

Busia earned a B.A. degree in English language and literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, in , and a in social anthropology at St.

Antony's College in 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.[9]

Career

Busia was co-director of the Women Writing Africa Project (which between and published the four-volume Women Writing Africa Series), as adv as Professor of English at Rutgers University and the Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.[7]

She has also taught at other institutions, among them Yale and the University of Ghana.[10]

She 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 (AWDF), the first pan-African foundation to help the work of women's rights organisations in Africa.[7][11]

Writing

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 () and Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life (). In addition, she is the author of two volumes of poetry: Testimonies of Exile () and Traces of Life ().

Abena Pokua Adompim Busia born is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat. She is a daughter of the former prime minister of Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busiaand is the sister of actress Akosua Busia. Busia is an associate professor of Literature in English, and of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University. She spent her childhood in Ghana as well as in the Netherlands and Mexico before relocating to Oxfordwhere her family finally settled.

Her labor is included in such anthologies as Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, ).[8]

Ghanaian diplomat

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

Selected bibliography

Poetry

  • Testimonies of Exile — poetry, illustrated by Akosua Busia (Africa World Press, ; ISBN&#;)
  • Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, ; ISBN&#;)

As editor

  • Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Innovative Pragmatism of Black Women, co-editor with Stanlie M.

    James (Routledge, ; ISBN&#;)

  • Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for Recent Life, co-editor with Kofi Anyidoho and Anne Adams (Africa Planet Press, ; ISBN&#;)
  • Women Writing Africa: West Africa and Sahel ()

Awards and recognition

In March , marking the th 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.[3][12]

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,[13] the 40th anniversary of whose death was marked by a public memorial lecture on 28 August at the Accra International Conference Centre.[14]

See also

References

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    Ghanian poet, editor, essayist, and limited story writer. Busia is commended as a respected feminist scholar, poet, and short story penner. In recent years, she has endeavored to bring the role of African women writers to light through her work on the Women Writing Africa series, which has been praised by critics as an invaluable resource on the subject of African women writers. In her poetry and short stories, Busia addresses the challenges of the exile experience, particularly the alienation facing African immigrants living in foreign cultures.

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    We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. Albert Einstein was a German mathematician and physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Inhe won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric impact. In the following decade, he immigrated to the United States after being targeted by the German Nazi Party.

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    Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist and probably the most well-known scientist of the 20th century. He is famous for his theory of relativitya pillar of latest physics that describes the dynamics of light and extremely monumental entities, as well as his work in quantum mechanicswhich focuses on the subatomic realm. His family moved to Munich six weeks later, and inwhen he was 6 years old, he began attending Petersschule, a Catholic elementary school. Contrary to accepted belief, Einstein was a fine student.

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  9. ^Motovidlak, Dave. "Busia, Abena". . Archived from the original on 4 March Retrieved 29 January
  10. ^Curtis M (4 June ).

    Professor Abena Busia, Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, is co-director and co-editor of the groundbreaking Women Writing Africa Project, a multi-volume anthology published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. As Professor Busia points out, "history is located in multiple places.".

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  14. ^"Wife Of Dr Busia, Nana Addo, Abena Busia On August 28th Memorial Lecture"Archived 9 October at the Wayback Machine, Modern Ghana, 24 August