Abena Busia

**Abena Pokua Adompim Busia** (an haife ta a cikin shekara ta alif 1953) marubuciya ce ta ƙasar Ghana, mawaƙi, mace, malama kuma jami'in diflomasiya. Ita 'yar tsohuwar Firayim Minista ce ta Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia, kuma' yar'uwar 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Akosua Busia ce. Busia kwararren malama ce a fannin Lissafi a Turanci, kuma na karatun mata da na jinsi a Jami'ar Rutgers. Ita ce jakadan Ghana a Brazil, wanda aka nada a shekarar 2017, tare da amincewa da sauran jumlolin 12 na Kudancin Amurka.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
Busia an haife ta ne a Accra, Ghana, a cikin gidan sarauta na Yenfri a Wenchi a yankin Brong-Ahafo na Ghana, ga Kofi Abrefa Busia, Shugaban ƙasar Ghana na lokaci ɗaya, da Naa Morkor Busia. Ta yi amfani da yarinta a Ghana har ma a Netherlands da Mexico kafin ta koma Oxford, inda a ƙarshe iyalinta suka zauna.

Busia ta sami digiri na BA a cikin harshen Ingilishi da adabi a Kwalejin St Anne, Oxford, a cikin 1976, da D.Phil. a cikin ilimin halayyar dan adam a zamantakewa a Kwalejin St. Antony a 1984. Ta kasance mai koyarwa a waje a Kwalejin Ruskin, kwalejin hulda da ƙwadago da ke da alaƙa da Jami'ar Oxford, kuma malama mai ziyara a cikin Shirin Nazarin Afirka da Afro-Amurka a Jami'ar Yale. Har ila yau, ta ci nasara da dama na haɗin gwiwar karatun digiri ciki har da Andrew Mellon Fellowship a sashen Turanci na Kwalejin Bryn Mawr, da Cibiyar Harkokin Al'adun Amirka a Cibiyar Nazarin Afro-Amurka, UCLA.

## Aiki
Busia ta kasance shugabar shirin Rubutun Mata na Afirka (wanda a tsakanin 2002 da 2008 ta buga jerin Rubutun Mata na Afirka mai juzu'i hudu), da kuma Farfesa na Turanci a Jami'ar Rutgers da Shugabar Sashen Nazarin Mata da Jinsi.

Ta kuma koyar a wasu mashahuran cibiyoyi, ciki har da Yale da Jami'ar Ghana.

Ta taba zama shugabar kungiyar nazarin kasashen Afirka ta duniya da kuma kungiyar adabi ta Afirka, kuma a halin yanzu ita ce shugabar hukumar AWDF-USA, 'yar uwar kungiyar Asusun Raya Mata ta Afirka (AWDF), wadda ita ce ta farko a nahiyar Afirka. gidauniya don tallafawa ayyukan kungiyoyin kare hakkin mata a Afirka.

### Rubutu
Busia ta buga ko'ina akan adabin mata bakar fata, maganganun mulkin mallaka, da kuma karatun bayan mulkin mallaka. Littattafan malamai da ta haɗa tare sun haɗa da *Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women* (1993) da *Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life* (1999). Bugu da kari, ita ce mawallafin wakoki guda biyu: *Testimonies of Exile* (1990) da *Traces of Life* (2008). Ayyukanta suna cikin irin wannan tarihin kamar *Daughters of Africa* (ed. Margaret Busby, 1992). 

## Jami'in diflomasiyyar Ghana
A watan Yulin 2017, Shugaba Nana Akuffo-Addo ya nada Abena Busia a matsayin jakadan Ghana a Brazil. Ta kasance cikin wasu fitattun 'yan Ghana 22 da aka nada don jagorantar ofisoshin diflomasiyya na Ghana a duniya.

## Littafin da aka zaɓa

### Waka

* *Testimonies of Exile* — waka, wanda Akosua Busia ta kwatanta (Africa World Press, 1990; )
* *Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems* (Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2008; )

### A matsayin edita

* *Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women*, edita tare da Stanlie M. James (Routledge, 1993; )
* *Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life*, edita tare da Kofi Anyidoho and Anne Adams (Africa World Press, 1999; )
* *Women Writing Africa: West Africa and Sahel* (2005)

## Kyaututtuka da karramawa
A cikin Maris 2011, bikin cika shekaru 100 na ranar mata ta duniya, AWDF ta amince da Abena Busia a matsayin daya daga cikin 50 masu kishin mata na Afirka, tare da bikin jama'a don karrama ta a watan Yuni a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasa a Accra.

Ita ce wacce ta kafa kuma Shugabar Busia Foundation International, kungiya mai zaman kanta da aka kafa don girmama tsohon Firayim Ministan Ghana, Kofi Abrefa Busia, bikin cika shekaru 40 da mutuwar wanda aka yi bikin tunawa da jama'a. on 28 Agusta 2018 a Accra International Conference Center. 

## Manazarta