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Miss Angelou's autobiographies just get better and better. What a blessing to be able to follow the journey of her life.
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I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your lifetime. I enjoyed the first book in the series and wanted to carry on with it. I’m just inspired and in awe of her. I knew I wanted to carry on with this series and learn more about her life. This book is about her journey in Africa and the movement with Malcolm X.
This book is the fifth of seven volumes of Maya Angelou’s autobiography. It is a testament to the talents and resilience of this writer. She knows that this world has love as well as cruelty. She knows that the world has love as well as cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this book, Maya 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. This book also focuses on the work she had done with Malcolm X.
Usually I struggle with non-fiction books, I find them slow, boring and I can never really dig into them and thoroughly enjoy it. However, this book I managed to enjoy. This book still discusses serious and difficult topics but it’s a journey of her finding her voice and becoming a writer. It’s almost as if she was writing about a fiction character in a storyline that I had to remind myself several times that she was the main character she is talking about and that she is talking about her life. She was talking about the struggles of being a woman and a mother in 1962 to 1965. The worries that she had as a mother after her son had broken his neck and the way the community gather around her and help her. This book wasn’t as heavy has her other books and I think that’s because a portion of the book is her discussing her career and the movement of Malcolm X and them becoming friends. I would have loved to see some chapters from her son as he was at an age where he remembers it now, especially with him dating a 36-year-old considering he was 19-year-old.
Again, with the previous book when it gets towards the end it feels rushed. I think it’s the gripping factor to get you to read the next book. I am sort of hoping with me having two books left in this series that this stops and comes to a point because I am hoping that she finds happiness and peace.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Racial slurs, Racism
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This audiobook is a dramatisation of Maya Angelou’s 5th autobiography brought by the BBC Radio 4 cast. It is essentially a heavily cut down version of Maya’s 5th book with an entire crew of people narrating her story including herself.
In this book, Maya stays in Africa after divorcing her husband, South African activist Vusumzi Make, but moves to Ghana to accompany her son Guy while he’s studying in university and is embraced by a new circle of freedom fighters and friends who shape her growing mind. I want to be a fly on the wall of her life so bad, it was interesting to listen to her interactions with the Greats, David Dubois (son of WEB Dubois) and his mother, and Malcolm X himself. Maya is definitely more grounded in this phase of her life and she is more of a force than ever in these civil rights demonstrations . I’ll probably read the full book because at some points I didn’t really understand the implications of a scene (her and the German host for example - what was the issue there?)
In this book, Maya stays in Africa after divorcing her husband, South African activist Vusumzi Make, but moves to Ghana to accompany her son Guy while he’s studying in university and is embraced by a new circle of freedom fighters and friends who shape her growing mind. I want to be a fly on the wall of her life so bad, it was interesting to listen to her interactions with the Greats, David Dubois (son of WEB Dubois) and his mother, and Malcolm X himself. Maya is definitely more grounded in this phase of her life and she is more of a force than ever in these civil rights demonstrations . I’ll probably read the full book because at some points I didn’t really understand the implications of a scene (her and the German host for example - what was the issue there?)
This is about her time living in Ghana, which I know precious little about. I really think I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is her (Maya's) best work; to me, the rest just don't have the same narrative power.... This was still quite enjoyable, because she has just led a hell of a life!
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!!! Review: http://africanbookaddict.com/2015/05/18/all-gods-children-need-traveling-shoes-by-maya-angelou/
This is book 5 in Maya Angelou's autobiography series. I've read books 1-3 when I was younger. I'll have to dig thru my Mom's old books and read book 4 before the year ends!
Maya Angelou can do no wrong - seriously! This book takes place in Ghana (mostly Accra) in the 1960's, shortly after Ghana's independence in 1957. Maya Angelou joins a community of 'Revolutionist Returnees' - African Americans/Negro Americans on their quest to explore, understand and aid the Motherland in any way they can. While in Ghana, Angelou finds a job as an administrator at the University of Ghana - Legon and at a local newspaper as a journalist.
Angelou takes us through the different conversations and interactions she has with the kind-hearted Ghanaians she experienced during her stay. I loved how most Ghanaians made her feel at home. Ghanaians in general are very hospitable, and this book definitely highlights this (my country did me proud in this book!). I was glad that Maya Angelou was living with a community of African Americans, but interacted mostly with Africans throughout her stay in Ghana - there was a good balance. An interesting bit in the book was when Angelou and the other African Americans protested in front of the American Embassy in Accra, on the same day of the March on Washington, lead by Martin LutherKing Jr. The purpose of the March and the protest in Accra was to encourage equal rights of people of all colors & desegregation in the United States. Even though W.E.B DuBois was also in Ghana at the time (he gained citizenship and lived in Ghana during the latter part of his life), he was unable to protest with them, and even dies shortly after the March on Washington from old age. My favorite part of the book is when Malcolm X arrives in Ghana and Angelou along with the other 'Revolutionist Returnees' do their best to make him feel at home, arrange various talks for him and even get him to meet president Kwame Nkrumah. It was great to read about these iconic leaders actually having normal lives in this book!
Angelou struggles a lot in this book with her identity and facing the facts of the past. It constantly angered her to recollect how Africans sold other Africans into slavery. She couldn't even visit the Elmina Castle - which housed several slaves at the Cape Coast of Ghana, because the historical weight behind this historical venue nauseated her. I appreciated her quest to experience and understand what the 'black experience' was like in Africa - Ghana, which is a place where almost everyone is black. This memoir ends on a satisfying note - for me. I recommend this to anyone who appreciates Black history and those who wish to travel to the continent of Africa on the quest for his/her identity.
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW WILL BE POSTED ON THE BLOG SOON!
This is book 5 in Maya Angelou's autobiography series. I've read books 1-3 when I was younger. I'll have to dig thru my Mom's old books and read book 4 before the year ends!
Maya Angelou can do no wrong - seriously! This book takes place in Ghana (mostly Accra) in the 1960's, shortly after Ghana's independence in 1957. Maya Angelou joins a community of 'Revolutionist Returnees' - African Americans/Negro Americans on their quest to explore, understand and aid the Motherland in any way they can. While in Ghana, Angelou finds a job as an administrator at the University of Ghana - Legon and at a local newspaper as a journalist.
Angelou takes us through the different conversations and interactions she has with the kind-hearted Ghanaians she experienced during her stay. I loved how most Ghanaians made her feel at home. Ghanaians in general are very hospitable, and this book definitely highlights this (my country did me proud in this book!). I was glad that Maya Angelou was living with a community of African Americans, but interacted mostly with Africans throughout her stay in Ghana - there was a good balance. An interesting bit in the book was when Angelou and the other African Americans protested in front of the American Embassy in Accra, on the same day of the March on Washington, lead by Martin LutherKing Jr. The purpose of the March and the protest in Accra was to encourage equal rights of people of all colors & desegregation in the United States. Even though W.E.B DuBois was also in Ghana at the time (he gained citizenship and lived in Ghana during the latter part of his life), he was unable to protest with them, and even dies shortly after the March on Washington from old age. My favorite part of the book is when Malcolm X arrives in Ghana and Angelou along with the other 'Revolutionist Returnees' do their best to make him feel at home, arrange various talks for him and even get him to meet president Kwame Nkrumah. It was great to read about these iconic leaders actually having normal lives in this book!
Angelou struggles a lot in this book with her identity and facing the facts of the past. It constantly angered her to recollect how Africans sold other Africans into slavery. She couldn't even visit the Elmina Castle - which housed several slaves at the Cape Coast of Ghana, because the historical weight behind this historical venue nauseated her. I appreciated her quest to experience and understand what the 'black experience' was like in Africa - Ghana, which is a place where almost everyone is black. This memoir ends on a satisfying note - for me. I recommend this to anyone who appreciates Black history and those who wish to travel to the continent of Africa on the quest for his/her identity.
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW WILL BE POSTED ON THE BLOG SOON!
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