The Histories of British-Goans project presents a clip of a very rare interview with Fitz Santana de Souza and his wife Romola. In this clip, Fitz talks about his Father being posted to Kabul circa 1914. Their time in Zanzibar, about meeting Pio Gama-Pinto and Jomo Kenyatta. Romola talks about knowing Fitz in childhood and meeting him again in Kenya. Please note this is a clip of a three hour interview and not the interview in its entirety. To see it on our website: http://www.britishgoanproject.com/ or you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OKGaE9DGM&feature=youtu.be Fitz Remedios Santana de Souza (born 1929, Mumbai), often known as Dr. F. R. S. de Souza and Fitz De Souza, is a Kenyan lawyer and ex-politician of Indian origin, who was an important figure in the campaign for independence for Kenya, a member of the Kenyan parliament in the 1960s and Deputy Speaker for several years. He helped provide a legal defence for those accused of Mau Mau activities including the Kapenguria Six, and he was one of the people involved in the Lancaster House conferences held to draw up a constitutional framework for Kenyan independence. To read more about Fitz you may access the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitz_Remedios_Santana_de_Souza Best, Selma Carvalho
