ABSTRACT
The year 2019 marked Maya Angelou’s fifth anniversary of her departure on May 28, 2014, to the Ancestors’ Abode. Born on April 4, 1928 in the United States of America (USA), she is famous as a singer, poet, dancer and actress. Little is known, though, about her revolutionary commitment to Pan-Africanism, an ideological framework advocating the unity and complete liberation of African people—in the continent and in the diaspora. She declared herself a “devout Nkrumaist”. This chapter interrogates Maya Angelou’s series of seven biographical works. It demonstrates that through her writings, she not only recorded the injustices visited by white supremacists on African people the world over, but also celebrated Africans’ resistance and resilience, particularly the struggle to hold on to their African cultural heritage against efforts to make them the white world’s cultural appendages in an effort to destroy African cultural identity.
