Ghana celebrates Maya Angelou ahead of official memorial service

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  • WOW!! 11 years ago

    by the way thank you ghana people!!!

  • 4 Year Old 11 years ago

    We have plenty on our to do than to run ahead of official memorial service.

  • 4 Year Old 11 years ago

    As if we have nothing else to.
    Don't we have better things to do than to run ahead of official memorial service of someone who did absolutely nothing for Ghana?
    This is the move of opportunists. They probably are looking f ...
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  • GHFUO, RIP MAYA ANGELOU!! 11 years ago

    U ARE VERY IGNORANT INDEED. SHAME ON YOU. IS THIS WHAT U WOULD DO YOURSELF? SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, U HEAR.

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    4 Year Old, go sleep with your ignorant self and leave Ghanaians out of this.
    Maya left her country to Ghana just to help a new independent Ghana with knowledge and inspiration in the 1960s.
    Just agree that prior to her d ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Angela returned home from Ghana to North Carolina but our greatest son Dr Kwegyir Aggrey did not return home.
    His remains lay in a Cemetery in Salisbury North Carolina.
    Many of our great scholars in the diaspora are not for ...
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  • GHFUO, RIP MAYA ANGELOU!! 11 years ago

    LISTEN TO YOURSELF IN THE QUIETTUDE AND MAYBE YOU WILL HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD.

    YOU ALL HAVE A DUTY TO READ AT EAST ONE OF HER WORKS BEFORE YOU DIE. U WILL LEARN SMTHING TO ENHANCE UR LIVES.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    The caged bird that was singing did not say Twea

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 11 years ago

    Maybe,that is what the Good Lord wanted it to be. His name be praised.

  • nath banini 11 years ago

    such a great woman I am blessed to have shared the same stage with her and muta baruka during the opening of panafest in cape coast in Ghana . God bless her soul

  • GHFUO, RIP MAYA ANGELOU!! 11 years ago

    GO TO GOOGLE. TYPE IN
    WAKE FOREST MEMORIAL FOR MAYA ANGELOU.
    THERE IS YOUR LINK

  • Kwamina Andrews 11 years ago

    Some information about the years she lived and worked in Ghana might have added some context to this article, had it been better researched.

  • The Mask 11 years ago

    I recall Maya Angelou´s visit to Ghana.