Margaret Busby
Publisher, writer and author · Ghana · On the map · Writers · Born 1944 · age 82
Margaret Yvonne Busby,, Hon. FRSL, also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK.
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, It's really just showing that there is more that you could be enjoying, that you could be learning from, that you could be reading.
It is easy enough to be the first, we can each try something and be the first woman or the first African woman to do X, Y or Z.
Sometimes people ask me how long it took me to put that together and I always say that it either took about a couple of years or all my life, depending on how you look at it.
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She was Britain's youngest publisher as well as the first black female book publisher in the UK when she and Clive Allison (1944-2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby in the 1960s. She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992), and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2020, she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons". In 2021, she was honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2023, Busby was named as president of English PEN.
