Hello all I note with interest Mervyn Maciel's comments on our people in East Africa not doing anything to preserve our history during this period.
There has already been a lot of documentation written about us during this time by scholars and Selma one of our people comes under "scholars" because she did not live in East Africa during this time so in essence has only been able to document what she has researched or has been told about by those of us who lived through it. Selma captured the opportunity with funding through a small grant from the UK National Lottery Heritage Fund. Mervyn Maciel is senior to me in age and Selma Carvalho is junior to me in age, both are very good with the pen and as a middle person may I suggest they team up with other writers like Silviano Barbosa (author of The Sixth Night) and Braz Menezes (author of Just Matata and More Matata) and others to co-ordinate with companies like Amazon and produce a boxed set for required reading as a gift for Christmas for our lost generation. Our young people are of the MTV and mobile telephone and text age and this will give them an opportunity to reconnect with Goa as they appear to be neither here nor there when it comes to knowing of our rich heritage, culture and identity. The title of the book "A Railway Runs Through" is most interesting. As far as I am aware the railways in the continent of Africa that was carved by the Europeans all ran from inland to the coast for the shipping of the goodness of Africa out to Europe. While here in Europe the railways are interconnected with each country. I look forward to attending this Saturday in England the launch of "A Railway Runs Through" with its steel tracks capturing the global sunrise and sunset across the world as it passes through each country and can only hope our people will embrace and learn from it taking them to Z, the destination being our Goa. Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 29 April 2014
