Thanks Frederick. Got to check out if the pedestal can still be viewed outside the Joao Menezes pharmacy in Mapusa.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 3:43 PM fredericknoronha <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew, your answer is here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sousa > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_António_de_Sousa > > Some years ago (about a decade), i saw a photo of his in the old Mapusa > Municipality building. > > This is from Domnic Fernandes' book *Mapusa: Yesterday and Today: A > Reminiscent Tour *(now out of print): > > PERSONALITIES ACROSS HISTORY > Manuel António de Souza: Merchant and militaryman in Portuguese Africa. > Made a fortune in the ivory trade, helped the Portuguese in some military > campaigns there, and was even recognised as a “king” of a region. He was > appointed Capitão Mor (Captain General) of Manica and Sofala in 1874. > Organised a tiny kingdom and a perfect little state with an army of 30,000 > men with its own guns, fortresses and administration. See details in an > earlier chapter on Chapter 22. > > Also from the book: > > MANUEL SOUZA ANTÓNIO De > In 1960, the Portuguese introduced a modern rotunda (circle) Manuel > António D’Souza. in place of* voddachem zhadd *and installed the statue > of the Mapusa-born Goan, Manuel António de Souza, merchant and militaryman > in Portuguese Africa. Known as Gouveia, he made a fortune in the ivory > trade, helped the Portuguese in some military campaigns there, and was even > recognised as a “king” of a region. He was appointed Capitão Mor (Captain > General) of Manica and Sofala in 1874. Manuel distinguished himself in > military campaigns in Africa. He went to Mozambique and consolidated his > little kingdom by driving back the attacks of natives. He played a role in > pushing ahead the frontiers for the Portuguese, and organized a little > kingdom and a perfect little state with an army of 30,000 men with its own > guns, fortresses and administration. He became a celebrity in Colonial > Mozambique at the end of the 19th century. Goa’s Portuguese rulers were > proud enough to issue a postal > stamp and to erect his statue at the rotunda, but within less than two > years, precisely four days prior to Goa’s Liberation, the statue was > destroyed by a bomb purportedly by the Portuguese military intelligence > from the Mapusa quartel, but the blame was put on the Indian Government in > order to create mixed feelings among Goans. > Travelling to the Escola Técnica usually on my Hercules bicycle via Parra, > I passed by the statue every day. One morning, I was surprised to see it > knocked down, but it didn’t upset me much; a year earlier many crosses > across Goa had been desecrated, including the cross in St. John’s Chapel > compound in front of my house and a couple more behind my house. > Post Liberation, the remnants of Manuel António’s statue, including the > pedestal, was cleared and dumped in the old market. > Photo: Discarded pedestal part of Manuel António’s statue. > At the request of Camilo Menezes, the concrete pedestal base was brought > and fixed at the triangular corner in front of Farmacia João de Menezes > where a ‘No Entry Zone’ sign-board stands planted. It is half buried in the > ground and it is still there as can be seen in the photo below. > A statue of Gandhi was installed in its place. From the statue, the road > on the left leads to Guirim, Socorro, Porvorim, Salvador do Mundo, Betim > and Panjim, and the one on right leads to Parra, Nagoa, Saligão, Pilerne, > Verem, Reis Magos, Sinquerim, Fort Aguada, Candolim, Calangute, Baga, > Arpora and Anjuna. > > > > > > > > > On Friday 11 October 2024 at 15:25:31 UTC+5:30 andrewpereira.3 wrote: > > Was Manuel Antonio de Sousa a Goan native or of Portuguese-Goan descent? > It is said that there was a primary school in Mapusa named after him along > with his statue at the rotunda now housing the bust of Mahatma Gandhi. > Would anyone have an idea where in Goa he would have traced his roots to? > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 6:57 AM 'Pedro Mascarenhas' via Goa-Research-Net < > [email protected]> wrote: > > The story of Chorão was told to me by A. D. Furtado, author of the book > "Goa - Yesterday, Today- Tomorrow", (photo ). It was a long conversation in > Panaji years ago and as he had been in Mozambique he made reference to > African slaves brought in the 18th and 19th centuries and placed in Old > Goa, Chorão, Divar etc. Each slave cost only a few shillings. So he told me > about Manuel António de Sousa, a Goan adventurer who went to Mozambique and > made a fortune selling ivory and slaves. He left his wife in Goa, and in > Africa had several African mistress and illegitimate children and was named > nobleman of Zambezi by the colonial governor of the region. Sousa was a > "prazeiro". The Prazeiros were the Portuguese and Afro-Portuguese > landowners who ruled, in a feudal-like manner, vast estates called prazos > that were leased to them by the Portuguese , in the Zambezi Valley. As a > racially hybrid community, the Prazeiros meant not only a merger of > cultures, but an emergence of a new socio-political order. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/cddaec23-85ad-4e2d-89c7-3754bb729c01n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/cddaec23-85ad-4e2d-89c7-3754bb729c01n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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