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Oral History: Busia, Abena, 2015
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Title
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Oral History: Busia, Abena, 2015
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Interviewee
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Busia, Abena
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Birth Year
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1953
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Birth Place
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Ghana - Accra
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Interviewer
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Cross, June
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Location of Interview
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New Jersey - New Brunswick
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Date Created
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2015
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Description
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Founding member of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and Center for African Studies, Abena Busia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of English at Rutgers. She is also co-director and co-editor of the groundbreaking Women Writing Africa Project, a multi-volume anthology published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. Busia articulates the significance of communities and leadership at Rutgers and describes negotiating a space within Rutgers to consider women’s experiences, blackness, and African womanness. She emphasizes the value of a single-sex education and describes Douglass as a place for nurturing women’s leadership.
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Repository
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Margery Somers Foster Center at Douglass Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
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Rights
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Identifier
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WELR-Busia