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Abena Pokua Adompim Busia born 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 spent her childhood in Ghana as well as in the Netherlands and Mexico before relocating to Oxford, where her family finally settled.

Busia earned a B. She has also taught at other institutions, among them Yale and the University of Ghana. Busia has published widely on black women's literature, colonial discourse, and post-colonial studies. In addition, she is the author of two volumes of poetry: Testimonies of Exile and Traces of Life. Her work is included in such anthologies as Daughters of Africa ed.

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She was among 22 other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various diplomatic Ghanaian missions in the world. 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, [13] the 40th anniversary of whose death was marked by a public memorial lecture on 28 August at the Accra International Conference Centre.

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