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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.

“She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier book s' EVENING STANDARD - 'Maya Angelou has an amazing ability to take readers into her personal maze and lead them out again feeling refreshed and even jubilant GUARDIAN - 'Maya Angelou has a fiercely uncompromising spirit DAILY TELEGRAPH - 'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained Maya Angelou such a devoted following SUNDAY TIMES”

'She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier books' EVENING STANDARD 'Maya Angelou has an amazing ability to take readers into her personal maze and lead them out again feeling refreshed and even jubilant' CLANCY SIGAL, GUARDIAN 'Maya Angelou has a fiercely uncompromising spirit' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained Maya Angelou such a devoted following' SUNDAY TIMES

Maya Angelou has been waitress, singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer and mother. As well as her autobiography she has written several volumes of poetry and has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

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.

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