Akosua Busia

Akosua Busia Cyamana ( born December 30, 1966) is a Ghanaian actress and writer, currently has its center of life in the United States. Busia was the daughter of Kofi Busia Abrefa, a former Prime Minister of Ghana. In Ghana, the family of Akosua Busia to the Royal family of the tribe of Wenchi counts. Your education was completed in Oxford, UK.

Busia played the role of Nettie in Steven Spielberg 's The Color Purple (1985) and the role of a patient in Antoine Fuqua 's Tears of the Sun ( 2003). In 1996 she married the American film-maker John Singleton, of which it was, however, already divorced three years later. With him she has a daughter called Hadar. Her sister Abena is University Professor at Rutgers University.

In 1997, Akosua Busia wrote the novella The Seasons of Beento Blackbird: A Novel, published in the Washington Press.