Tony who expired recently in Dar es Salaam was a brilliant architect having to his credit the designs of many public buildings in Dar. I shall always remember him for designing the most beautiful Goan Institute of them all namely GI of Dar now known as Dar es Salaam Institute.
It would be interesting to add that he has a younger brother called Sarto Almeida who is also an architect by profession now living a retired life in a village called Seraulim near Colva. Both architect brothers were born to Francisco Almeida, originally of Patnimorod, Chinchinim. Tony's father Francisco was a pioneering business entrepreneur who in partnership with his maternal cousin Nazareto Menezes ( also from Chinchinim of Adv. Laurente Menezes family ) opened a chain of general stores shops called Almeida and Menezes in Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Morogoro and Bagamoyo during the German occupation of Tanganyika ( Deutsch-Ostafrika) before the First World War.. Selma Carvalho in her book on Goans of East Africa called A Railway Runs Through briefly wrote as follows ( page 24 ) : ''In 1919 .......... .....quite a few Goan businesses lined Acacia Avenue in Dar es Salaam . The local agents for the East Africa Standard newspaper were Almeida and Menezes .....''
