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African Writer Kaguri Builds School for his Village
The Price of Stones is a new memoir that tells the story of author Twesigye Kaguri and his wife, Beronda, building Nyaka School in Kaguri’s village: rural Nyakagyezi in southwest Uganda. Nyaka School provides free education, meals and medical care for some 200 orphans. The school’s success has even led to the establishment of a second school in a nearby village and the publishing of Kaguri’s memoir. Nyaka School also has a working farm to grow food for the children, a program to teach villagers to build clean water systems, vocational training and a program to assist caregivers for the orphans.
Kaguri learned the value of education early from his older brother Frank, whose kindness and generosity he idolized. In spite of their father’s disdain, Kaguri excelled at school, eventually joining Columbia University’s Human Rights Advocacy visiting scholars program.
Even as he discovers that “many in New York considered Africa a country, not a continent … [that] all Africans were the same” he also marvels at “the freedom of expression [he] found in America.” He pointedly notes his “amaze[ment] that primary through high school education was free.”
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- The Price of Stones by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
EAN: 9780670021840
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