Thinking through what makes a leader, how do you communicate and how do you organize yourself. - Abena Busia

Her first non-fiction book, Manifesto, on never giving up, is to be published next month. And she has taken that wit and wisdom so many places, including, most crucially, the academy, where today she is professor of creative writing at Brunel University in London and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.

What makes a leader different is the different communication styles respecting different forms of leadership.

I came to the United States of America conscious of my African-ness, conscious of my blackness, I became conscious of women studies and became a feminist.