num_pages: 208
description: Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou 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
language: English
title: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
titlecomplete: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
genres: Classics, Autobiography, Travel, African American, Biography Memoir, Africa, Biography, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 7262
series: Maya Angelou's Autobiography
publisher: Virago Press