Kushi was born in 1918, in Vrakë, near Shkodër. He belonged to the Serb-Montenegrin minority. His original surname was Kušić ; due to King Zog's state politics following 1920, surnames with obvious Slavic suffixes such as '-ić' and '-vić' were removed, as were Slavic-speaking schools. The minority was instrumental in the National Liberation. Following the Italian occupation of Albania in April 1939, the first communist revolutionary organization was established in Shkodër, which included minority members brothers Vaso and Branko Kadija, Vojo Kushi, Jordan Misja, Ivo Jovanov, Vojin Dragović, Petar Bulatović and Vasil Shanto. The Shkodër group was led by Shanto and Qemal Stafa. The other organization, established in Korçë, was united into one on November 8, 1941, in Tirana, at the house of Bojko Lazarov, hence forming the Communist Party of Albania. In 1942, he was chosen as a member of the regional committee for Tirana and appointed commander of guerilla units. Enver Hoxha was appointed the Party leader in order to include the majority Muslim population. Kushi was sent by the Albanian government for education at the Military Academy in Belgrade, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Before his return to Albania, he joined the Yugoslav Partisans and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. One of the discussions of Partisans in Prokletije, including Kushi, was included in Đurica Labović's Lučonoša sa Prokletija. The Albanianfascist regime sentenced communist fighters to death for treachery and unrest. In Tirana, Qemal Stafa, and later Kushi, Sadik Stavileci and Xoxi Martini were surrounded and killed by carabinieri on 10 October 1942. Their house on the Kodra Kuqe quarter was surrounded and a fight ensued for 6 hours, with tanks forcing them out; Kushi stormed out and killed several carabinieri, then ran out of bullets and jumped onto the tank and was killed. Albanian historiography characterize their fight as "one of the most heroic fights in the city in 1942". After the war, he was proclaimed a National Hero. In Albania, many streets, quarters, schools, sport institutions and others were named after him. In Tirana, a monument was erected in his honour. An Albanian documentary about him, , was made. In Serbia, a street in Novi Banovci and a football club in Stara Pazova are named after him. Later Hoxha imprisoned Vojo's brother Marko and his family in southern Albania as part of his party purges.
