Folks, The woman that Cyprian Fernandes seeks to vilify has spent the last five years of her life researching East African Goans. One of the earliest columns she wrote about East African Goans on GoanVoice UK can be read here: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2009/Feb/issue3/
Sitting in the National Archives for long hours she gathered original research and penned a hugely successful book, Into The Diaspora Wilderness, largely about East African Goans. You can read 8 pages of comments and reviews on this book here: http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/reviews-etc/ On the heels of this book, she successfully lobbied for a grant to have the stories of East African Goans recorded. She then partnered with the British Library to have them permanently archived. For the past one year, she has been travelling relentlessly the length and breadth of London to record these stories, recruit interviewees, transcribe, edit and produce videos. She then worked tirelessly to produce a documentary from the recording which aired to a packed hall on the 22 of July 2012. The 25 minute documentary and some other videos produced by her can now be viewed at http://www.britishgoanproject.com/video-archive/ The best testimony of the love and respect Selma has always harboured for the East African Goan community has been her work. If there is one person who has put East African Goans on the map, it is Selma Carvalho, the same person Cyprian seeks to crucify. Such are the ways we Goans show our gratitude Please ask your friends to forward this message to their contacts. Best wishes, Eddie Fernandes www.goanvoice.org.uk