Re: [Goanet] Updates on Goans in East Africa dates
Hi Tony (and Cornel too): I just copy-and-pasted this stuff from Goacom.com. It neither originates from my computer, brain, or hardwork! As someone said recently on Goanet, I'm pretty efficient in this copy-and-paste stuff. When it comes to sharing knowledge (or information), I don't think see any hierarchy ... as long as it's effective and due credits were given. Let's now collectively prevail on GoaCom to update that page with the additional inputs you sent in, and whatever others might add too. May the tribe of cut-and-paste artistes grow universally :-) FN 2008/7/16 Tony Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Frederick ! > > Thanks very much for giving us a taste of nostalgia and sending us down > memory lane. However, I have added some dates on Tanganyika and > Zanzibar which may be of interest to other readers. > -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha
Re: [Goanet] Updates on Goans in East Africa dates
Hi Tony I had meant to mention with reference to one of your recent posts about musicians in East Africa, including the origins of Maliaka in Mombasa etc that, the night club you mentioned "The Sal Davis Nite Spot" in Nairobi, was owned and run by someone who attended my school (The Goan High School) in Mombasa. We knew him then as Salim Abdalla and indeed I have a professionally taken photograph of the first school orchestra, with a little Salim on the maracas! I had sent a copy of that photograph, with a requested article of mine, about my school experiences, for the brochure when the Goan High School, Mombasa, celebrated its 75th anniversary last year. I was aware that Sal had spent time in the 1970s in London, honing in on his singing skills and with a special interest in Sammy Davies Jr but was unaware, until you mentioned it that, he had a night club in Nairobi. I was lucky to visit all the places you mentioned in Tanzania including your birth-place in Iringa but although my amateur dance band (MDB) played at Greek owned hotels in Tanga twice, I did not get a chance to visit the Tanga Goan Club that you mentioned. We sure live in a small world and I too was pleased to receive Frederick's nostalgic details of Goan clubs/institutions in East Africa. I have also enjoyed Roland's material on Goan clubs in Bombay, and Cotton Mary of course, but only regret that I didn't know about such clubs when on several past short visits to Bombay. Regards Cornel --- Tony Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frederick ! > Thanks very much for giving us a taste of nostalgia > and sending us down > memory lane...
[Goanet] Updates on Goans in East Africa dates
Hi Frederick ! Thanks very much for giving us a taste of nostalgia and sending us down memory lane. However, I have added some dates on Tanganyika and Zanzibar which may be of interest to other readers. 1919 - The Goan Institute in Dar es Salaam takes shape 1956 - The Goan School opens in Changombe on the outskirts of the city 1956- The Goan Community Club is formed in the southern Tanzanian town of Iringa- my birthplace 1958 - Goan club formed in Morogoro - near Dar Es Salaam 1959/1960- The Goan Institute in Dar moves into a new building opened by Tanganyika's last Governor, Sir Richard Turnbull. Designed by the distinguished goan architect, Tony Almeida who also designed the Goan School, the building incorporated a unique open "sunken" dance floor in addition to the main dance hall. December 10, 1963- The Sultanate of Zanzibar gets "sham" independence from Britain after a political party that did not win the elections "grabs" political power. December 12, 1963- Kenya celebrates independence January 12, 1964 - an armed Revolution in Zanzibar and Pemba brings the winning Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) to power. April 26, 1964 - The Spice Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba merge with Tanganyika to form a Union called Tanzania Unfortunately, I do not know when the goan clubs in Tanga, Arusha, Moshi, Mwanza and Zanzibar were formed, and I hope some other goanetters from Tanzania can fill in those dates. rgds. Tony Barros. Union, New Jersey. U . S . A
