Aah, a forthcoming book by Rose Fernandes.
I shall look forward to it, expecting to hear again about English Cadbury's
chocolates that you take to Goa on every trip.
Roland.
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From: Melvyn Fernandes <mel...@orange.net>
Date: 05-28-2014 7:00 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: "goanet [goanet]" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Subject: [Goanet] No Goan Canecos in British East Africa (Response by Rose
Fernandes)
Dear Readers
In his article in OHeraldo 27 May 2014, Professor Teotonio R. De Souza wrote:
Quote:
If it is generally true that those who do not write usually criticize, I have
seen this happening to some extent in the Goanet forum, where quite a few cheap
comments have sought to belittle the research efforts of Selma Carvalho. None
of such loose-tongue critics have anything worth to show ?
Rose Fernandes' response:
Such loose-tongue critics have actually LIVED and most helped to develop East
Africa (some still are) and their lives have plenty worth to show, their
success not only establishing a thriving community but in all other aspects of
their lives which has yet to be replicated in other parts of the world today.
Did Professor Teotonio R. De Souza live in East Africa himself? Or is it
generally true that those who DID NOT live in East Africa have now become so
fascinated by what went on there, they have now become more expert that those
who actually DID.
Professor Teotonio R. De Souza then writes:
Quote:
The Indians in Mozambique had to suffer socially offensive nicknames, such as
monhes (Hindus and Muslims) and canecos (Goan Catholics). They were invented by
the Portuguese white settlers who hated their competition. I did not come
across any such parallel in Selma's book........
Unquote:
Rose Fernandes's response:
I have now reached Page 63 of The Book and have yet to find any parallel at all
of my life or those of the many families that lived around me in Mombasa
reflected in The Book, now hoping that this is to come in the pages to follow.
Never mind socially offensive nicknames the Indians had to suffer in
Mozambique, there is also an interesting story involving segregation in Kenya
on one of my all time favourite topics "toilets" for me to narrate in the
future......
Rose Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
28 May 2014
