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NEW YORK — Step into Akosua Busia’s tiny dressing room on Broadway and you walk into a little corner of happy calm.

There’s a small palm tree and some potted plants.

The heater is blasting.

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A pair of white sculptured wings hangs on a wall. There’s a huge poster of a tranquil beach and rolling waves.

The Ghanaian actress decorated it with items from Amazon and a budget of $300. She usually gets this reaction: “Everyone’s like, ‘Akosua, you’re homesick.’”

Maybe, but she’s on a mission: After leaving show business for 18 years to raise her daughter, Busia is back, starring in “Eclipsed,” Danai Gurira’s searing, important play about enslaved women in Liberia’s 12-year civil war.

That Busia is part of such a groundbreaking show isn’t unusual for this royal-born daughter of a Ghanaian prime minister.

She’s a novelist, actress, activist and mother to her daughter with ex-husband, John Singleton, director of “Boyz N the Hood.”

Before giving birth, Busi