Hi Adolf While you are waiting for someone from Kenya to write something, here is a piece I had put together for the 25th anniversary book of the Moira Association of Toronto. It is a composite of articles published by P.G. Okoth in the December 1985 issue of Drum, and F.R.S. De Souza. Cheers John
From: Adolfo Mascarenhas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 16, 2020 12:21 PM To: [email protected]; Roland Francis <[email protected]>; Frederick Noronha <[email protected]>; John Nazareth <[email protected]>; Vivian A. DSouza <[email protected]>; Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>; MervynMervyn Maciel <[email protected]> Subject: Least We Forget The Berlin Conference of 1884 Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> You state categorically: :::Sitting in Quepem you have wishful dreams of another course for East African history? Roland. I was not merely sitting and day dreaming. Whether I am in Abuja, or Tokyo or Ottawa, or New York .I observe and learn and perhaps improve my skills… In Quepem for the first time I was fighting for my life, trying to remain in a Heritage House and indeed modernizing the infrastructure……but also making sure that workers who worked for my parents were not evicted. In the process I learnt a great deal. There is a first core of people who will implement some of the ideas. With my Bank Account being frozen by a Cooperative bank I was dependent on the Good Will of the very people whom my parents enabled them to get out of Poverty. Basically it is the right thing to do. Sitting and wringing my hand, or blaming politicians is not a solution. In dreadful moments I think of all the Goan Professionals (Nazareth (the late), Pio and Wolgango Dourado (pity I never met him,,he stayed a stone throw away from where my FiL lived). Here in Dar es Salaam it is a new world with a lot of possibilities ,,,I asked four Tanzanian whether they knew about Maji Maji only the maid (now in the 60’s) knew what had happened. They had no clue of what happens when mutinies take place ….I DO. In essence, we can be cynical, very cynical but what Eddie and now are saying clearly and loudly..STOP IT Adolfo In Dar es Salaam PS will somebody from Kenya write about Advocate Nazareth. It was an accidental footnote I read.
