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Abena Busia (Abena Pokua Adompim Busia) was born on 28 April, 1953 in Accra, Ghana, is a Lecturer, writer, poet, feminist, diplomat. Discover Abena Busia's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
| Popular As |
Abena Pokua Adompim Busia |
| Occupation |
Lecturer, writer, poet, feminist, diplomat |
| Age |
71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
| Born |
28 April 1953 |
| Birthday |
28 April |
| Birthplace |
Accra, Ghana |
| Nationality |
Ghana |
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Abena Busia Height, Weight & Measurements
At 71 years old, Abena Busia height not available right now. We will update Abena Busia's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Abena Busia Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Abena Busia worth at the age of 71 years old? Abena Busia’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from Ghana. We have estimated
Abena Busia's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
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Abena Busia Social Network
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
