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The American writer, civil rights activist and academic, Maya Angelou, has died at the age of eighty-six. She once told Martin Luther King she thought she鈥檇 be dead before a black president was elected 鈥� but she was proven wrong when Barack Obama won the vote in 2008. She spoke to the programme the day after 鈥� you鈥檒l also hear one of her poems 鈥淎nd Still I Rise鈥�, sung by Ben Harper.

(Photo: Maya Angelou receives a Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama. Credit: REUTERS/Larry Downing/Files)