This audiobook is a dramatisation of Maya Angelou’s 5th autobiography brought by the BBC Radio 4 cast. It is essentially a heavily cut down version of Maya’s 5th book with an entire crew of people narrating her story including herself.

In this book, Maya stays in Africa after  divorcing her husband, South African activist Vusumzi Make, but moves to Ghana to accompany her son Guy while he’s studying in university and is embraced by a new circle of freedom fighters and friends who shape her growing mind. I want to be a fly on the wall of her life so bad, it was interesting to listen to her interactions with the Greats, David Dubois (son of WEB Dubois) and his mother, and Malcolm X himself. Maya is definitely more grounded in this phase of her life and she is more of a force than ever in these civil rights demonstrations . I’ll probably read the full book because at some points I didn’t really understand the implications of a scene (her and the German host for example - what was the issue there?)