Margaret Busby

Busby, February 2019

Margaret Busby OBE , also Nana Akua Ackon 1 (born 1944 in Accra , Ghana ), is an author , journalist , critic, editor and publisher from Ghana. Busby now lives and works in the UK .

Education and career

Busby graduated from the University of London in the early 1960s and also did his PhD in the UK. As a co-founder of the publishing house Allison & Busby Ltd. became the youngest editor and the first black editor in the UK. She remained the publisher's editor-in-chief for 20 years until 1987. She was then editor-in-chief of Earthscan Publications until 1990 . Busby has been a well-known writer, journalist, critic and consultant herself since 1990. She worked as a radio play writer for BBC Radio 4 .

As a journalist, she worked for:

The Guardian , UK
Observer, UK
Independent, UK
Sunday Times, UK
Literary Review , UK
New Statesman , Ghana
The Times , UK

bibliography

Daughters of Africa : An International Anthology of Words and Writing by Women of African Descent London: Jonathan Cape, 1992, ISBN 978-0-224-03592-7
Introduction to: Bessie Heads A Question of Power (Penguin Classics, 2002).
Musical: Yaa Asantewaa - Warrior Queen .

honors and awards

Busby was awarded the Order of the British Empire at Officer Level (OBE) in 2006. Busby also received the following honors:

Society of Young Publishers Award, 1970
Pandora Award, 1993
Caine Prize
Guardian / Heinemann: African Short Stories Competition
Saga Prize
Honorary Doctorate from the Open University , 2004

Others

Busby ascended the royal throne as Nana Akua Ackon 1 in Cape Coast in September 1999 .

Web links

African Writer Abroad ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Africadatabase ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
BBC ( Memento of May 21, 2007 on the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Sandra Robinson: Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth. BRILL, 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-33596-7 , p. 230 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Busby, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nana Akua Ackon 1
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ghanaian author, editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[books-oidoDQAAQBAJ-230-1] Sandra Robinson: Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth. BRILL, 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-33596-7 , p. 230 ( limited preview in Google book search).