I was very interested to read Vivian D'Souza's post that he was born in a European Hospital in Dar-es-salaam. For me, this is quite a new experience, but then, things might have been different in the old Tanganyika? I say this because, in Kenya, no way could a Goan or non-White be admitted to a European hospital during the early days. My eldest son was born in what can best be described as a "store room", the second son, in a Seventh Day Adventist Hospital by the shores of Lake Victoria - all because, the Catholic-run missionary hospital at Sotik(near Kericho), though admitting non-Catholic Europeans, failed to let us know whether my wife could have her baby there(despite previous assurances). It is only around the 1960s, when one of my daughters was born, that my wife was allowed to have the baby at the formerly exclusive (European) Nakuru War Memorial Hospital. As for the term "watu ya mungu" which another poster has mentioned - I've never heard of this. I just wonder what made the Africans refer to us Goans as "people of God"????????
Mervyn(Maciel)