 At one point , Angelou 's lover from Ghana , whom she calls " the African " , arrives in Los Angeles to take her back to Accra . Angelou enlists the aid of her mother and brother ; they come to her rescue once again by diverting the African first to Mexico and then back to Ghana . Guy , during a visit to his grandmother in San Francisco , gets into another car accident , similar to what happened before he began college in Ghana . His maturity is striking to his mother , and she leaves him in the care of his grandmother . 
