Shirley Graham Du Bois [SEP] cause of death
. Her surviving son David Graham Du Bois accompanied her and worked as a journalist.
Shirley Graham Du Bois died of breast cancer on March 27, 1977, aged 80, in Beijing, China.
She died as Tanzanian. She had moved from Ghana to Tanzania after Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown on 24 February 1966, and became close to Tanzanian president, Julius Nyerere, and acquired Tanzanian citizenship.
Works.
After meeting Africans in Paris while studying at the Sorbonne in 1926, Graham composed
a year after his death.
Du Bois was given a state funeral on August 29–30, 1963, at Nkrumah's request, and buried beside the western wall of Christiansborg Castle (now Osu Castle), then the seat of government in Accra. In 1985, another state ceremony honored Du Bois. With the ashes of his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, who had died in 1977, his body was re-interred at their former home in Accra, which was dedicated the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for