African Pearl: AIDS, Loss and Redemption in the Shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains

₦6,500.00

Single, burned out and on the cusp of 40, Irish-Nigerian New Yorker, Pamela Brown-Peterside, is yearning for meaning when she exchanges a stable career in HIV research for the lush but AIDS-affected valleys of western Uganda.

Ambivalent about missions, Pamela unwittingly joins an American missionary-doctor couple committed to preventing HIV infections in newborns. Within days, she learns they have to leave and she finds herself alone and in charge. Confronted by personal illness, ever-present death, and a devastating Ebola outbreak, Pamela faces uncomfortable questions of identity, sacrifice, and calling, even as the AIDS programme succeeds.

Vulnerable, inspiring, and honest, Pamela’s gripping account of an African returning to Africa and experiencing it as an outsider tells how she rediscovered God’s grace both for herself and those she went to serve.

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About the Author

Pamela Brown-Peterside was born and raised in Jos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and a mother from Northern Ireland. An interest in women’s reproductive health took her from Jos to the American mid-west to London to Harlem to the South Bronx to Uganda and back to New York City. During her time in New York, she received a Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences and discovered a passion for storytelling. She now lives in London where she still takes great delight in stories, especially those with multiple surprises!