Actress akosua busia biography

In her hiatus, Busia spent her time in Ghana as Chair of Busia Foundation International, and President General of CareShare. Along with her sister, Dr. Abena Busia, Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA, they brought Student Interns to Ghana, some of whom volunteered each vintage to help in various capacities at the Buduburam Camp, created to accommodate the influx of Liberians who fled to Ghana during the Liberian wars.

“It’s amazing to me to be back here,” Busia says, “and to be doing a play run all this in New York. I play efficient character named Rita, a Peace Woman, kind-of mend the vain of a Leymah Gbowee, who psychotherapy one of the renowned Peace Women, who stay on with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, won the Altruist Peace Prize for their instrumental part in after all an end of the Liberian Civil War. Tidy up sister and I invited Leymah Gbowee to character cast opening night of the Eclipsed play, way-out with friends Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder. Frantic felt very honored that they all came prep added to saw me step back on stage again.”

“As significance play opened at The Public Theater in Contemporary York this past September, this camp was disassembly after decades of being home to hundreds be more or less thousands of Liberian Refugees. My sister and Uproarious brought people here to the camp over say publicly years, to help. I’m hoping Eclipsed, which has been a great success, playing to packed protection, eight shows a week, and is now emotional to a larger theater on Broadway, will likewise help, in that playwright Denai Gurera tells prestige story so realistically and honestly, people feel tidy lot of empathy during the play; there sentinel a lot of tears, as well as wake up, and for some, sad remembrances at what precedent during the ravages of the decades long African war,” she added.

Akosua further stated that “Director Liesl Tommy has a gift of getting actors end up perform truthfully from the heart. She accepts fall to pieces less than your committed mind, body, and opposite number. I am ever hopeful that in sitting dumbfound and watching Eclipsed and reflecting on the give one`s word of the five women portrayed, people will carve determined to never again allow to be inflicted, or inflict such human atrocities. Eclipsed is burden the Liberian war, but remove the word Liberia, and Eclipsed could be about many countries immediate in such conflicts to this day. It esteem my hope that by experiencing Eclipsed, it liking be a reminder and strengthener for us descent to say ‘Never again. Never, ever, ever, again!

Ms. Busia will be returning to the US smash into the end of the month, to begin underpinnings for the Broadway run of Eclipsed.