Selma Carvalho certainly deserves praise for the pioneering work she is doing, 
and has been doing now for quite a few years. It was far from easy for her to 
put all that information together on Goans in East Africa, but she persevered 
in the face of difficulties, and I for one am grateful that at last we have a 
reference work on hand. Perhaps those who find something lacking in it should 
direct their efforts now at providing whatever additional information they are 
privy to, so that it can be accessed and archived, making her finished book 
even better.

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro


On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:27 PM, Mervyn Maciel 
<mervynels.watuwasha...@gmail.com> wrote:
 
As I've said before, and I make no apology for repeating it here  - we,
Goans
from East Africa,should be proud that Selma Carvalho, someone who had
never set foot on African soil before, has done so much in preserving a
slice of
our history for posterity. None of us, former British Goans from East
Africa, had
ever attempted such a task before.
  My good friend, Dr. Christine Nicholls, who edited Selma's recent book
"A Railway runs through" had this to say in a private message to me:

"I enjoyed working on Selma's book. She did a lot of research and has told
a fascinating story. "

   By all means, let us be constructive in our criticism, but also
honourable to
give praise where praise is due.



Mervyn Maciel

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