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A 5 page analysis of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou, which is the fifth volume in her serial autobiography. This volume is an account of Angelou's experiences in Ghana in the early 1960s. This narrative relates how Angelou found a job teaching at the University of Ghana and began working as an editor. While the narrative naturally includes the details of where Angelou worked, and the major details of her life, the motivating force behind the book is how Angelou worked to relate emotionally to Ghana and her African heritage. No additional sources cited.
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an account of Angelous experiences in Ghana in the early 1960s. This narrative relates how Angelou found a job teaching at the University of Ghana and began working as an
editor. While the narrative naturally includes the details of where Angelou worked, and the major details of her life, the motivating force behind the book is how Angelou worked to
relate emotionally to Ghana and her African heritage. Angelou begins by discussing the distressing reasons why she stayed in Ghana when her original destination was Liberia. The original plan
was for Angelou to stay two weeks, and get her son Guy settled in to his dorm at the University of Ghana in Accra. However, an automobile accident intervened and
left Guy in a body-cast, with Angelou unsure if her son would be paralyzed. Fortunately, Guy recovers, and his ordeal and recovery are part of the emotional journey that Angelou
shares with her readers. Angelou beautifully recreates the Ghana of the 1960s, showing the reader how this African country became a haven
for a group of black Americans during this time. The reader sees novelist Julian Mayfield and political activist Malcolm X in a Ghanaian landscape through Angelous eyes. While Angelou speculates
that it would take living in total despair, hopelessly oppressed to fully comprehend the "soul" of Africa, her observations about what she learned in Africa are instructive to everyone reading
this book?black or white. This volume closes with Angelou boarding a plane to return to the US. She is seen off by friends and family?Guy is there, "looking like
a young lord of summer, straight, sure among his Ghanaian companions" (208). Angelou concludes with this leave-taking that her "people had never completely left Africa" (208). She feels that they
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