Mother of Pearl (novel) Mother of Pearl (novel) "See Nacre for material produced by mollusks." Mother of Pearl (1999) is a novel by Melinda Haynes, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection, June 1999. The audio version is performed by Nana Visitor. Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a 15-year-old white girl, who is the daughter of the town prostitute and an unknown father. They are both separately seeking the family, love, and affection
The Pearl of Africa (film) The Pearl of Africa (film) The Pearl of Africa is a documentary film directed by Johnny von Wallstroem, it focus on the life of Cleopatra Kambugu, a Ugandan born woman who decide to live openly as a trans woman despite hostility towards same-sex relations in the country. The phrase Pearl of Africa is attributed to Winston Churchill who used it to describe Uganda's flora and fauna. In 2014, when the protagonist and her lover decide to settle down quietly, Uganda passed a homophobic law; later in the year, a Ugandan tabloid, "Red Pepper" outed Kambugu which eventually forced the lovers