Daughters of Africa (1992) New Daughters of Africa (2019)
Relatives
Moira Stuart (cousin) Phyllis Christian (cousin) Clara Marguerite Christian (aunt) Essi Matilda Forster (aunt) Kathryn Busby (niece)
Busby's voice
recorded February 2019
Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher[1][2] when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded[3] the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s.[4] She edited the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992), and its 2019 follow-up New Daughters of Africa.[5] She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature.[6] In 2020 she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons".[7] In 2021, she was honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award.[8] In 2023, Busby was named as president of English PEN.
^Jazzmine Breary, "Let's not forget", in Writing the Future: Black and Asian Writers and Publishers in the UK Market Place, Spread the Word, April 2013, p. 30.
^Margaret Busby, "Clive Allison obituary", The Guardian, 3 August 2011.
^"Black History Month in Britain: Great women you should know about", Newsround, BBC, 1 October 2018.
^Margaret Busby, "From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa", The Guardian, 9 March 2019.
^Natasha Onwuemezi, "Busby to compile anthology of African women writers", The Bookseller, 15 December 2017.
^"100 Great Black Britons", 2020.
^"This Is My Story: Margaret Busby", The Hub, London Book Fair, 26 October 2021.
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