Migrations Of The Heart: An Autobiography
by Marita Golden
Anchor (Jan 04, 2005)
Paperback, 240 pages
Nonfiction
Description of Migrations Of The Heart: An Autobiography by Marita Golden
In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other, her parents instilled her with spirit and aspirations. Swept up in the heady Black Power movement of the sixties, Marita moved to New York to study journalism at Columbia—and fell in love with Femi Ajayi, a Nigerian architecture student..
Their passion led them to start a life together in Africa—a place Marita was eager to understand. Exhilarated by a world free of white racism, Marita quickly found work as a professor and embraced motherhood. But Femi’s increasing expectations that she snap into the role of the submissive Nigerian wife were shocking and dispiriting. Her struggle to regain her footing and shape a black identity that was true to her spirit is suspenseful and inspiring, an uncommon tale of race, identity, and Africa.

- ISBN: 9781400078318
- Imprint: Anchor
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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