All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Maya Angelou
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel writing
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Culture, Self-discovery, Acting or actors, Africa or Africans, Current events, Genealogy, Homelessness or homeless people, Job hunting, Journalism or journalists, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Perception, Traveling or travelers, Voyages
- Locales: Ghana, Manhattan, NY
The fifth volume of the autobiographical chronicle begun in I Knew Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) begins with the arrival of Maya Angelou in the West African nation of Ghana during the euphoria of the early years of independence. Already an established dancer and actress, Angelou journeyed to the capital of Accra in part to enroll her seventeen-year-old son, Guy, in the University of Ghana and in part to recover a sense of self-worth following the break up of the marriage described in The Heart of a Woman (1981).
One important, and familiar, motif concerns the...
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