Summary Of All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes is the fifth book of Maya Angelou, who is an African-American female author. The book was set between 1962 and 1965. In the book, Maya Angelou is the main character where she writes about her autobiography. Maya Angelou upholds the African-American traditions and how she travels from her dwelling country, the United States, to an African country, Ghana, in search of her native home. Maya cherished the behaviors of the African people and wanted to feel the sense of returning to her ancestry and uniting with her fellow natives and American returnees. Maya traveled from the United States to Ghana in the year 1962 to settle her son, Guy in the University of Ghana to escape the racism in the United States during that time. She was also planning to continue her career in Liberia. However, upon arriving to Ghana, Guy was involved in a terrible automobile accident and broke his neck. Her stay in Ghana was prolonged due to waiting for the recovery of her son. During this time, Maya was induced with self-pity and began to feel sorry for herself because she had nobody. She was so afraid her son was going to die while she

She got out of the car and began to walk instead. As she went up the steps through a narrow walkway, she passed a woman who looked at her and the woman started speaking angrily and frantically in a language Maya did not understand. It was then interpreted to Maya that she looked like an ancestor who was stolen a long time ago for slavery. People of the village then began to cry and flourish Maya with gifts of fruit and Maya was overwhelmed. She grasped the idea that Keta was where she had found her ancestor roots and she was forever relieved. Her time in Ghana was complete as she had to return to the United States while leaving a piece of herself in