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African American expatriates

Maya Angelou in Accra: the years she spent in Nkrumah’s Ghana Celebrity Buzz Maya Angelou in Accra: the years she spent in Nkrumah’s Ghana Maya Angelou lived in Ghana from 1962 to 1965, working at the University of Ghana and in journalism. She met Malcolm X during his 1964 visit and wrote about her Ghana years in All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes.