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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - Maya Angelou

Description: ISBN 0860689077 / Author: Maya Angelou / Genre: Biography / Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents ... more

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - Maya Angelou ... and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa.

Newest Review: ... hospitalised after a serious car accident and suddently her life plans are in dissarray. Angelou had travelled to Africa ... more

... to search for an alternative to the opression of the US, and to discover her roots. President Kwame Nkrumah was the first leader after Independence, and Malcolm X visited the country after his journey to the hadj in 1962. Angelou has worked as a civil rights activist and recounts some of the conversations and arguments she had at the time, for example contrasting the Black experience in USA v Africa. She finds employment at the Institute of African Studies in Accra, but finds that she is more American than African...more

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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou's Autobiography (301 words)
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This is part of a series of autobiographical works written by Maya Angelou. Angelou is a poet, writer, singer and activist - amongst her many achievements - and spoke at the inuguration ceremony of President Clinton in in the US. It is set in Ghana, beginning in 1968, where Angelou arrives from the States. Almost immediately her 19 year old son Guy is hospitalised after a serious car accident and suddently her life plans are in dissarray. Angelou had travelled to Africa to search for an alternative to the opression of the US, and to discover her roots. President Kwame Nkrumah was the first leader after Independence, and Malcolm X visited the ... Read the complete review

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