When Maya Angelou Lived in Egypt and Ghana

From Global Voices » Egypt Wed May 28 2014, 22:15:09

Sean Jacobs writes about American author and poet Maya Angelou, who died at age 86 yesterday May 28, 2014: In 1961, Maya Angelou, already a civil rights worker, and her then partner Vusumzi Make, an exiled activist from South Africa (he was a leading Pan Africanist Congress member), moved to...

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