Vusumzi L. Make (1931 – 15 April 2006)[1] was a South African civil rights activist and lawyer.[2] He and the American poet Maya Angelou met in 1961,[3][4] lived together in Cairo, Egypt, before parting ways in 1962.[3][5] He was a professor at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia, from 1968 to 1974.[1]