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Abena Busia
Ghanaian diplomat and writer (born 1953)
Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat.
Busia is recognized as a respected feminist scholar, poet, and short story writer.
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 ambassador to Brazil, appointed in 2017,[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 State, 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.