Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Bwana Karani/Sir Richard Turnbull
As a former, albeit short term member of the Colonial Civil Service in what
was then called
Tanganyika, I enjoyed Roland's account of the book titled Bwana Karani
translated as
Mister Clerk
Dear Tony all,
Pardon me for this general and rather hasty response to some of the
postings on goanet recently.
For the benefit of all, Yes, Sir Richard was my Provincial Commissioner in
the
Northern Frontier Province; he then became Minister for Internal Security
Defence,
then Chief Secretary
Mervyn, With Google around, there's considerably less need to remember
things: See
http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg13209.html
On 11 January 2012 15:50, Mervyn Elsie Maciel
mervynels.watuwasha...@gmail.com wrote:
*Some goanetters may also remember my speech to former
As a former, albeit short term member of the Colonial Civil Service in what was
then called
Tanganyika, I enjoyed Roland's account of the book titled Bwana Karani
translated as
Mister Clerk in English. Now I am trying to get a copy of the book, so I can
read it in its entirety. One thing I
