'Souza cleverly imported into Zanzibar, the idea of the provision store as a communal space, the sort that exist on the periphery of every church square in Goa. He sold merchandise downstairs and ran the upstairs rooms as a bar. British consuls and other European colonials, in the absence of any other clubs, were known to drop by in the evenings for a ‘whiskey-soda.’ In just fifteen years, Sultan Sayyid Barghash awarded him a... diploma of honour with a gold medal for enterprise. Further recognition came in 1892, when he was awarded his second gold medal by Sayyid Ali bin Sayyid. It was Souza’s idea of setting up a store which catered almost exclusively to a European clientele that would be emulated by other Goans, giving them a reputation of excellence in retail, which carried over when they spread into Mombasa and Nairobi' http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=7800&boxid=162525968&uid=&dat=9/7/2014
The information in the article is taken mostly from the book 'A Railway Runs Through: Goans of East Africa, 1865 - 1980.' Now available at bookstores in Goa. For more information: research | British Goan Project <http://www.britishgoanproject.com/research/> [image: image] <http://www.britishgoanproject.com/research/> research | British Goan Project <http://www.britishgoanproject.com/research/> A Railway Runs Through: Goans of British East Africa, 1865 – 1980 by Selma Carvalho. Pages 196. First published in Britain by Matador Publishing. Published in Goa... View on www.britishgoanprojec... <http://www.britishgoanproject.com/research/> Preview by Yahoo
