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
