"In Testimonies of Exile, Abena Busia brilliantly exposes exile as an almost living creature: cruel and omnivorous. In these poems, we encounter this particular beast in its dimensions: especially exile from land, language, those we love and ourselves...The 'testimonies' span continents and stretch across time: from our very beginnings to our endings. Indeed, in their profundity, clarity and force of language, and distilled as they are from a wealth of living, exile itself and dying, so many of these poems should be 'the work of a mature poet at the peak of his life's work!!' It is a mark of both the current tragedy and uniqueness of Africa and her peoples--both at home and abroad--that the collection is from a young woman in her prime...Read them and wonder too..." -Ama Ata Aidoo

"These are lovely, strong, rich poems...The sadness, ah, and the wisdom, and the beating beating heart, and the eye that sees the circle in every square." -Alice Walker

"Exile, in our time, has become central to the human condition. Abena Busia's poetry movingly explores the pain of exile, the power of family, memory, and the spiritual and practical will to survive, even while history rages 'from guns to guns agan:/again.'" -Alicia Ostriker