A Pearl Beyond Price: Uganda Before Idi Amin

Life at Kitunga, a rural boarding school in Uganda, East Africa during the late 1960s, is vividly depicted in Rich Nemanich's entertaining and informative memoir recalling his two years as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teacher. Including maps and fifteen black and white photographs, it relates a unique period in Uganda's history---between independence from Britain in 1962 and Idi Amin's disastrous coup in 1971. Filled with memorable characters, A Pearl Beyond Price chronicles the sometimes humorous, often contentious, but always engaging dynamic among Americans, Africans, and Britons as they struggled to forge a new identity in an emerging nation of fascinating diversity and ravishing natural beauty.