When MA
, in Cairo as an African wife, desperately needed to make money, she was offered a job through the good offices of David Du Bois
, an African-American journalist working locally (son of...
Occupation
Maya Angelou
In Cairo the African-American journalist David Du Bois
helped MA
to get a job as assistant editor on a new English-language weekly called the Arab Observer (the only non-male, non-Arab, non-Muslim on its staff). In...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maya Angelou
In 1961 MA
embarked on another significant relationship when she fell in love with Vusumzi Make
, a Black South African freedom fighter.
Innes, Lyn. “Maya Angelou Obituary”. The Guardian.
She met him when she was engaged to an American bail bondsman...