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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Author: Maya Angelou
The author describes her odyssey to Ghana in the 1960s, meant as a return to her African roots. Over a few years she transformed herself by learning to speak Fanti, dressing in Ghanian style and delving in politics. But after encountering racial prejudice and losing her son in a car crash, she returned to America.
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ISBN-13: 9780679734048
ISBN-10: 067973404X
Publication Date: 6/4/1991
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 26 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 2
This book recounts a year that Maya Angelou spent in Ghana, West Africa, attempting to re-connect with her African roots and parallel these with her own African-American experience. Her descriptions of Ghana's markets and peoples is fairly accurate and her candor about her own struggles and expectations is helpful. For a person wanting to learn more about and/or travel to Ghana or an adjoining West African nation, this is a helpful introduction which, through descriptive language, transports the reader to a new land with new experiences.
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Helpful Score: 2
Maya Angelou writes so beautifully. Her books are a treat. This one is particularly compelling.
JoJo46580 avatar reviewed All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes on + 65 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Very entertaining and makes one think.
This was my first book to read of Maya Angelou, and
I will definatly be reading the rest of her written
collection!
jojo46580
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Helpful Score: 2
I adore Maya Angelou's writings and this is another great one!
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good read from our presidential poet laureate
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This is a book about Maya Angelou Trip to africa in her continuation autobiography.I enjoyed it very much.
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anyone who's ever read her knows how well she writes,a very intelligant woman.If you haven't read any Maya Angelou you may find a new favorite.
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Everything I have ever read by Maya Angelou is a treat.
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Maya Angelou shares a narrative of her journey to Ghana to find her roots.


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