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Abena Busia

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Ghanaian writer

WritersBorn 1953 · age 73
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Abena Pokua Adompim Busia 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.

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Abena Busia
said · 2016
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New family law can end violence against women.

"Interview with Abena Busia" (2016)

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Abena Busia
said · 2016
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Violence is both visible and invisible.

by Women learning partnership: Interview on family law reform. (2016)

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Abena Busia
said · 2015
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I came to the United States of America conscious of my African-ness, conscious of my blackness, I became conscious of women studies and became a feminist.

"Interview with Abena Busia" (2015)

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Abena Pokua Adompim Busia 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. She is Ghana's ambassador to Brazil, appointed in 2017, with accreditation to the other 12 republics of South America.

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Born 1953 · age 73
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19 languages

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