Abena busia biography of barack

  • Abena Pokua Adompim Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat.
  • She is Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she was formerly Chair of Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies.
  • Born in Ghana, she is the elder daughter of Mrs. Naa-Morkor Busia, a retired mid-wife and teacher and late Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, a Professor of Sociology, who.

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    Abena Busia

    Member, WLP Board of Directors

    Abena Busia (Ghana) is Ambassador of Ghana to Brazil, with concurrent accreditation to the other twelve Republics of South America. She is Professor of English at Rutgers University, where she was formerly Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for African Studies. Busia earned a B.A. in English and D.Phil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. She has also served as president of both the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and the African Literature Association. As a philanthropist, she is the current Board Chair of AWDF-USA, the sister organization to the African Women's Development Fund.  The AWDF is the first and only Pan-African funding source for women-centered programs and organizations. Busia has authored over fifty articles and book chapters. Her academic achievements include being project co-director and editor of the four-volume Women Writing Africa Series (2002-

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    Abena Busia Oral History (audio files, English)

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    Additionally, you can click here to tillgång the accompanying time-coded summary of the interview. Full transcripts and other oral history materials are available at the British Library Sound Archive, London, United Kingdom, and at the WLP office in Bethesda, MD. For more information, please consult our Oral History Archive of the Global Women’s Movement Terms of Use. 

    About the Interviewee* 

    Abena Busia (Ghana/USA) fryst vatten Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Executive Board Member of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University. She fryst vatten the current Board Chair of AWDF-USA, the sister organization to the African Women's Development Fund, the first and only pan-African funding source for women-centered programs and organizations and Past President of both the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African

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    Last updated on April 18, 2021

    Abena Pokua Adompin Busia, a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, was named asGhana’s Ambassador to Brazil in July 2017.

     

    On August 2, 2017, she was sworn to that post by Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a ceremony at the President’s residence, Flagstaff House, in Accra, Ghana.

     

    In 1998 the Livingston Alumni Association (LAA) at Rutgers University named Professor Busia as an Honorary Member to recognize her contributions to Livingston College. She joined the Rutgers faculty in 1981.

     

    Professor Busia served as the Women’s and Gender Studies chair from 2011 to 2017, and also formerly directed Rutgers’ Center for African Studies. She teaches courses in African American and African diaspora literature, colonial discourse and black feminism.

     

    Her scholarship keeps her actively connected to her nati

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