Wednesday Book Review: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

On this week’s book review I recommended one of my all time favourites, I read this book over and over again.’ All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes’ is part of Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography which 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 immigrates 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.

I came across Maya Angelou at the age of 18 and she is now no doubt one of my favourite authors, she is an exceptional publisher, teacher, historian, activist, poet and philosophical writer, my goodness she is truly a phenomenal woman that’s her. This marvellously written journal is about Maya Angelou's experience in Africa in the 1960s. Looking for a home where skin colour didn't matter, many African Americans went "home" to Africa. There were heart-rending moments in this book that I loved, Maya struggles to be honest with herself about the role that black Africans played in the slave trade, and the struggle for civil rights.

If you haven’t read this book then what are you waiting for grab your copy now....simply profound!