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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes - Maya Angelou

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 country after his ...

Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou

This is the compelling sequal to the bestseller " I Know Why The Caged Bird SIngs". Having survived the war , Maya now finds herself facing the trials and tribulations of motherhood. At only 17 she finds it a great struggle. She s isolated from her family because of the baby, she finds herself drifting between transient jobs anywhere she could, shops, resaurants & nightclubs. As well as embarking on a series of affairs. In the end she feels she has no options left so turns to prostitution & narcotics. Somehow eventhough nothing is going right she overcomes this. What makes this such a great read is that through it all she finds the strength through ...

Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou

This is the second of five autobiographies by the African American writer Maya Angelou, whose best selling accounts of her life began with the work; ‘I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings’. That book told of a childhood growing up fast in the south’s St Louis, Stomps Arkansas, and the west’s, California. In this book, we catch up with the author as an independent 16 year old, striving to find her way in post second world war America, a time of new beginnings and opportunities for black people, used to white domination and segregation. The Author Maya Angelou life is one that personifies the old phrase ‘truth is stranger than fiction’. ...