The American poet, author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Angelou died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement. She was best-known for her 1969 memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". President Barack Obama called her "a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman." Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher looks back at her life.

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