John Singleton ex-wife: Who is Akosua Busia?

John Singleton’s ex-wife: Who is Akosua Busia? – John Daniel Singleton’s ex-wife was Akosua Gyamama Busia, a Ghanaian actor, film director, playwright, and songwriter living in the United Kingdom. The couple was married for only a year, from 1996 to 1997.

Singleton and Busia married on October 12, 1996, and divorced on June 15, 1997. Hadar Busia-Singleton, their daughter, was born on April 3, 1997.

Hadar went to school in Ghana before returning to the United States.

Akosua was born on December 30, 1966, as the daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Ghana (from 1969 to 1972), and a prince of the royal house of Wenchi, an Ashanti subgroup, making Akosua a princess as well.

Akosua grew up in Ghana and began her acting career at the age of 16 when she was accepted on scholarship to London’s Central School of Speech and Drama.

Her first acting job was as Juliet in an otherwise all-white ensemble at Oxford University, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Akosua’s cinematic roles include Bessie in a 1986 film adaptation of Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (starring Geraldine Page and Matt Dillon).

In 1986, she co-starred in Hard Lessons with Denzel Washington and Lynn Whitfield.

She played Nettie (opposite Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg) in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 The Color Purple, adapted from Alice Walker’s novel of the same title, as Ruth in Badge of the Assassin (1985), as Jewel in John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) and as Patience in Antoine Fuqua’s Tears of the Sun (2003).

Akosua is a prolific writer and the author of The Seasons of Beento Blackbird: A Novel (Washington Square Press, 1997, ISBN 9780671014094).

She was one of three co-writers on the screenplay adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved for Jonathan Demme’s 1998 film adaptation of the same name.

She directed The Prof. A Man Remembered, a film about her father, in 2008. K.A. Busia’s Life, Vision, and Legacy.

Her poetry “Mother” appears in Margaret Busby’s 2019 book New Daughters of Africa.

She co-wrote the song “Moon Blue” with Stevie Wonder for his 2005 album A Time 2 Love.

Source: abtc.ng