Never thought of that. They were definitely players in a significant group of Socialists/Communists with many interesting connections... I’ll have to find the book I read now. As I said, there were a lot of names and dates.
Fred, the biography you linked to for Maya Angelou has some things out of order when compared with Angelou’s accounts in her book (I think the one I have is “A Woman’s Heart”) and it starts with her son and her living in California, and then moving to Harlem, and includes the time period when she was living in Cairo, and Ghana. She joined the Writer’s Group, and was very active in the “Civil Rights Movement” as well as being a very strong supporter of the Cuban Revolution. It also mentions her meeting Farrakhan, and interestingly — at least up until the point I stopped reading she did not mention Malcolm X. This all started (the Writing Group/Cuba/Farrakhan) BEFORE she met Make and married him, IIRC. It’s been a while since I read the book though so, I could be wrong...
[Now, you’ve given me a reason to find the dang book and force myself through the rest of it though! LOL — I’ll post any pertinent info. and dates and such. As I said, some of that bio seems “out of order”.]
that's why I posted excerpts and links from/for both. I've never read an autobiography that tells the whole truth, have you?
And if Maya knows something she shouldn't tell, she would hardly tell us! The interest lies primarilly in the connections. And she was, as the title of this post suggests, a typical AFRICAN COLONIAL. They wanted all the best positions, expected special treatment; the indigenous people under the thumb of their marxist rulers, despised the expats.
When things got tough, when Nkrumah ruined the economy and was thrown out - burned in efigy! - most of them high-tailed it back to the US.