On 21 December 2016 at 05:35, V M <[email protected]> wrote: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/utter-radicals-kenyas-goa- > connection/articleshow/56096122.cms > > The story of Goan migrants to East Africa is among the most astounding > episodes in Indian diaspora history. A tiny percentage of migrants > from the subcontinent (themselves never more than five percent of the > overall population), pathbreakers from the Konkan, played an outsized > role in colonial expansion, and then the anti-colonial push for > independence. Aquino de Braganza was a crucial ideologue and > negotiator for Mozambique's freedom fighters. A G Gomes invented the > 'gomesi', now national dress in Uganda. But most incredible is the > record and legacy of Goans in Kenya. > > 'Yesterday in Paradise' by Cyprian Fernandes is an elegiac but > no-holds-barred chronicle of when "Goans dominated in the colonial > administration of British-ruled Kenya, Uganda, and German > Tanganyika...the colonial administration would have collapsed but for > the skill and management of the Goan clerks and accountants. Later, > doctors, chefs, musicians, dentists, motor mechanics, coolies.......
RESPONSE:- > I do not believe Catholic Goans were ever coolies! That was done by the > locals, to give credit where it is due, Indians (non Goans) built the > Uganda Railways which later became East African Railways and Harbours. They > were taken enmasse from India and many stayed on in East Africa, until > Independence. > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
