Testimonies of exile

by Abena P.A. Busia

Book by Busia, Abena P. A.

Genres: Poetry

91 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Born in Accra, Ghana, [in 1953,] she spent the first years of her childhood at home as well as in Holland and Mexico, before her family settled in Oxford, England, where she had her secondary and university education; she read for a BA in English Language and Literature at St Anne's College (1976) and a DPhil in Social Anthropology at St Antony's College (1984). She has been an external tutor at Ruskin College, Oxford, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Yale University and has held post-doctoral fellowships at Bryn Mawr College and the Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. She is now Associate Professor of English at Rutgers State University, where she has taught since 1981.

(from Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby)