AND... were he able to keep quiet, I can't believe the likes of Oprah Winfrey could -- it's just too juicy.
Ha! I had the same thought: how could he help but have trumpeted it for years years ago?
It's not a plot hatched in the sixties, it simply started out as a means to keep an affair conducted in the middle east by MX a secret and protect the child. Before he returned from his last trip to Egypt shortly before he was assassinated in the US, MX wrote that he expected to be killed - not in the US - but in the middle east. There's a LOT you don't know about MX. He made his first trip to egypt-africa in 1959.
And no, I am NOT suggesting Maya was the mother. She wasn't working in Cairo for 'The Arab Voice' until 1960:
"...In New York City, she later married South African freedom fighter and civil rights advocate Vusumzi Make in 1960. They moved to Cairo, Egypt, where she became editor of the weekly newspaper, The Arab Observer, and Guy began elementary school. Maya Angelou continually took writing and teaching positions as she and Guy adjusted to African lifestyles. She and her son left Egypt for Ghana as her second marriage was coming to an end in 1963..."
MAYA KNOWS! And if Maya knows, so does Oprah. And neither of them are telling.