Dear goanet readers Hot off the flight path "Oh, I am going to Kenya, my sweet country" comes the latest news story "A Goan Legacy in Nairobi" from our very own Project Manager, Oral Histories of British Goans (from East Africa) Project published in OHeraldo on 3 March 2013 and linked on Goan Voice (for which thanks).
In this article she writes "Gladys Kanyi the current headmistress says with gratitude. Tell the Goans to come back, we need them to mould a generation of vulnerable girls." Later she writes "Njoki does feel that Asians collectively still think of Africans as inferior and as part of the labouring class." (There is a very nice photograph shown of Njoki smiling and standing next to her Asian husband surrounded by their children). Speechless, here are some burning free style questions I have. If our Kenyan brothers and sisters feel that we treated them inferior why do they wish us to return? Why do they wish us to mould their children? And what are we to mould their children into? Finally, do we need to return to a frosty reception in Kenya, don't we have enough frost here in the UK to deal with right now? Rose Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 11 March 2013
