Customer Reviews
Funny bits - By: Christina Kehinde, 03 Jul 2007 
This book is about Maya Angelou emigrating to Ghana with her son.
There are some funny bits that I can relate to being from an african family. It was well written but the passages were abit slow.
Pointless and empty - By: C. Ramuz, 24 Sep 2002 
I found this book such a waste of time.The first half was simply a list of black activists that Maya met in Ghana with very few worthwhile anecdotes.There was hardly any sense of the real Ghana at that time, just Maya patting herself on the back time after time simply for having mixed with some fellow American black activists.They seemed to make scant contribution to anything but Maya admired their rudeness, hostility & sarcasm.
What a disappointment the Malcolm X episode turned out to be; just a list of people he visited. Political rant over substance.
A wonderful end to an exhilarating journey - By: , 03 Jan 2001 
This book is the last in a series of 5 that has taken Maya Angelou from being a young kid in the South to a mature woman & mother living out her dreams in Africa. Maya's story combines so many elements of a good book- it has excitement, it touches history, it is philosophical, emotional - yet it is alll true. One wonders as she comes into contact with the great figures of African & African American life, & as she contemplates the place of an African-American in the African dream, as well as the place of the Africa in the American dream.
Behind alll of the great moments that do not happen in the lives of most people this story is ultimately human. She battles for the development of her son & herself as a woman, mother. She reaches a place of greater maturity & yet with these new skills with which to understand the world around her, comes the insecurities both trivial & profound, that she articulates in a manner that that brings the reader to empathise greatly as if Maya is holding up a mirror for the reader, to understand themselves with great warmth & courage.
The end of the other titles in the series were frustrating but this could be assuaged by the reading of the next, this last one leaves you satisfied by the experience, but bursting for more - surely the sign of a successful story & a great read
