Devastated by his assassination, she joined her brother in Hawaii and resumed her singing career there, returning to New York in 1967. She returned to the US in 1965 where she became a close friend of Malcolm X. The relationship ended a year later and she and her son moved to Accra where she became an administrator at the University of Ghana and a freelance writer for the Ghanaian Times. In 1961 she met the South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make and moved to Cairo with him and her son where she worked as associate editor for the Arab Observer, an English Language paper. She also met Martin Luther King and became a civil rights campaigner and fundraiser.
She lived in New York on her return where she joined the Harlem Writers’ Guild.
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She began a professional career as a singer and dancer and in 1954 secured a part in the musical Porgy and Bess, touring Europe with the company. In 1951 she married A Greek electrician, ex-seaman and aspiring musician, Tosh Angelos, a marriage that ended three years later. Soon after leaving school she have birth to a son, Guy, and for the next few years earned her living variously as a waitress, cook, dancer and sex worker. This traumatic event rendered her semi-mute for several years and it was only after returning to her grandmother’s that she learned to speak again, thanks to the efforts of her grandmother and a family friend who also introduced her to English literature.Īt the age of fourteen she moved back to her mother’s house, now in Oakland, California where she went to school for three years, also taking a job as a cable car operator. Four years later her father brought her back home, only for her to be sexually abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend, who soon afterwards was murdered, possibly by her uncles. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St Louis, Missouri and nicknamed Maya by her older brother, at the age of three she and her brother were sent to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. He trained as a teacher at Tegwani Training Institute and then attended Epworth Theological Seminary, resulting in his ordination as a Methodist preacher in 1962 Subsequently he worked as a Methodist schools manager principal chairperson of the Bulawayo Council of Churches and member of the Rhodesian Christian Council and World Council of Churches In the 1970s Banana attained a BA with honors in theology through distance learning from. Banana attended Mzinyati primary school and Tegwani High School. Banana married Janet Mbuyazwe in 1961 the marriage produced three sons and a daughter. The versatile Banana’s father, Aaron, was a migrant laborer from Malawi while his mother, Jese, was a Zimbabwean Ndebele woman.
Nationalist politician, first titular president of independent Zimbabwe, statesman, peace broker, clergyman, author, soccer administrator, academic, poet, and journalist, was born on 5 March 1936 at Esiphezini, in Essexvale (now Esigodini) District near Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Magazine and Journal Editor/Publisher (5).Political Activism and Reform Movements (25) Political Activism and Reform Movements (34)Įxploration, Pioneering, and Native Peoples (1) Archives, Collections, and Libraries (1).Miscellaneous Occupations and Realms of Renownīefore 1400: The Ancient and Medieval Worldsġ400–1774: The Age of Exploration and the Colonial Eraġ775–1800: The American Revolution and Early Republicġ801–1860: The Antebellum Era and Slave Economyġ877–1928: The Age of Segregation and the Progressive Eraġ929–1940: The Great Depression and the New Dealġ941–1954: WWII and Postwar Desegregation Exploration, Pioneering, and Native Peoples
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