Re: [Goanet] From Africa to Goa in the 1960s: troubled times, transitions and transistors

2015-12-31 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Roland Travas wrote: :The British handed the political reins to the Arab-minority :Zanzibar Nationalist Party, and left. The Africans were :disenfranchised and the status quo remained. Within a month, :a violent African-led revolution occurred, toppling the new :government and changing the

[Goanet] From Africa to Goa in the 1960s: troubled times, transitions and transistors

2015-12-30 Thread Goanet Reader
Roland Travas rolandtra...@gmail.com The winds of change were sweeping colonial Africa in the 1960s. The Europeans were awarding independence to their former territories, although there were problems for France in Algeria, for Belgium in the Congo