Latest articles on Maya Angelou

Women take centre stage in the Market Theatre’s Shakespeare season

Friday Diane de Beer - 4 Sep 2020

The Market Theatre’s virtual offering, ‘Chilling with the Bard: A Shakespeare Season’, includes women performing traditionally male roles

Strip away the blackface that causes so much pain

Article Colin Chasi 1 - 25 Sep 2019

Canada’s leader, seen as an antidote America’s Donald Trump, is accused of concealing prejudice

The fraternity of lived genius

Article Mbali Sikakana - 16 Aug 2019

Author Toni Morrison’s words set high new standards for ethics

Letters to the Editor: November 30 to December 6

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Nov 2018

Our readers write in about voting for the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the Democratic Alliance and Equal Education

Maya Angelou, sex worker

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Jun 2014

The celebrated author felt no shame at being a prostitute, why do we?

Maya Angelou: Oh, to live like there’s no tomorrow

Article Staff Reporter - 29 May 2014

Author and poet Maya Angelou's passing leaves us to contemplate – for us as well as her – how far daring can get you.

Maya Angelou: A ‘warrior for equality, tolerance and peace’

Article Staff Reporter - 28 May 2014

The poet and author, who rose from the harshest of childhoods to become a force on the stage, screen and printed page, has died aged 86.

Poet, human rights activist Maya Angelou dead at 86

Article Staff Reporter - 28 May 2014

Celebrated author, poet and human rights activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86.

Maya Angelou’s cooking with words

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Dec 2011

It's a natural extension to my autobiography, says the author.

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