Hello all,
As prelude to the official launch of Braz Menezes' new novel ‘Among the
Jacaranda – Buds of Matata in Kenya’, I've published a short excerpt
from an interview I had with the him this week...
https://www.goaculturelist.ca/2018/09/14/among-the-jacaranda/
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Local Author publishes a new Novel
Canadian author Braz Menezes speaks to Goa Culture List about Kenya,
Goans, and his new novel in this interview excerpt.
‘Among the Jacaranda – Buds of Matata in Kenya’ is the authors third
novel in his well received Matata Series of books. The word matata means
trouble in Kiswahili, or Swahili, the ingua franca of the area where the
novel is based.
Braz Menezes’ book is a work of historical fiction but it is based on
real people and events. It provides an immersive look at struggles of
the Goan Community, of now desolved British East Africa, during the
process of the Africanization of the civil service after Kenyan
Independence.
It’s the mid 1960’s. Winds are blowing across the Empire. There is
trouble brewing. Stalwart Goan families, many who have lived tightly
knit on the continent for half a century and more, are starting to
disperse. ‘Our boys are leaving their diplomas behind and bringing back
English brides,’ a mother laments.
The book follows newly married Lando, the main character, who we are
well acquainted with from the previous books of the series. He travels
to England to pursue higher education and then explores Europe. He
brings his new English bride back to Kenya to start a family and career.
We meet the post colonial Goan Community.
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Albert Peres
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