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She has served as president of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and of the African Literature Association, and currently chairs the board of AWDF-USA, sister organization of the
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Busia was co-director of the Women Writing Africa Project (which between 2002 and 2008 published the four-volume Women Writing Africa Series), as well as Professor of English at
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Busia has published widely on black women's literature, colonial discourse, and post-colonial studies. Scholarly books she has co-edited include
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She is co-founder and Chair of the Busia Foundation International, a non-government organisation set up in honour of
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Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women
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Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women
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Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life
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Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life
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and the Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.
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Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems
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She has also taught at other institutions, among them
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Index

Accra
St Anne's College, Oxford
St. Antony's College, Oxford
Kofi Abrefa Busia
Akosua Busia
diplomat
Kofi Abrefa Busia
Akosua Busia
Rutgers University
Brazil
Accra
Wenchi
Brong-Ahafo Region
Kofi Abrefa Busia
Netherlands
Mexico
Oxford
B.A.
English language and literature
St Anne's College, Oxford
social anthropology
St. Antony's College
Ruskin College
University of Oxford
Yale University
Bryn Mawr College
UCLA
Rutgers University
Yale
University of Ghana

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