On 4 July 2010 10:03, Eddie Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Title: Who the Bleep cares about a book on Diaspora Goans - Part 2 > By: Selma Carvalho > Source: Goan Voice UK Newsletter 4 July 2010. > > For a photograph of the front cover of the book go to > http://www.flickr.com/photos/90182...@n00/4759336523/ > > The history of Goa written by those who wore those imported hats, is quite > different from the history of Goa as lived by my parents in the villages. > Their history belongs to the cooks, clerks and tailors that made their way > to Africa and set up a Saint Francis Xavier's Goan Tailors' Society in > Mombasa as early as 1905. > RESPONSE: My borther-in-law's father Alleluia Fernandes was the first and founding President of the Tailor's Society in Nairobi - the Portuguese Consulate gave them a model Portuguese Caravel, on their opening, which was displayed at the Tailor's Society Club in Town. Alleluia had arrived as a young boy from Goa and started stitching for the Army. He learnt his trade well and became a good cutter and eventually a bespoke Tailor. He stiitched my Wedding Morning suit for me in London! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
