Abena Busia

Professor Abena Busia
Born	Abena P.A. Busia 1953 (age 63–64) Accra, Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Occupation	Lecturer, writer, poet, feminist

Abena P. A. Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist and lecturer. She is a daughter of former Ghana Head of State 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.

Abena Busia was born in Accra, into the Yenfri Royal family in Wenchi in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana, to Kofi Abrefa Busia, one-time Ghana's Head of State, and Naa Morkor Busia. She spent her childhood at home as well as in the Netherlands and Mexico before relocating to Oxford, where her family finally settled.

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 at UCLA.

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