Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Goanet Reader: Butcher, baker, minstrel, hunter, frontiersman

2014-04-29 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Selma Carvalho certainly deserves praise for the pioneering work she is doing, and has been doing now for quite a few years. It was far from easy for her to put all that information together on Goans in East Africa, but she persevered in the face of difficulties, and I for one am grateful that a

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Goanet Reader: Butcher, baker, minstrel, hunter, frontiersman

2014-04-25 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 24 April 2014 16:04, Mervyn Maciel wrote: > As I've said before, and I make no apology for repeating it here - we, > Goans > from East Africa,should be proud that Selma Carvalho, someone who had > never set foot on African soil before, has done so much in preserving a > slice of > our history

[Goanet] Subject: Re: Goanet Reader: Butcher, baker, minstrel, hunter, frontiersman

2014-04-24 Thread Mervyn Maciel
As I've said before, and I make no apology for repeating it here - we, Goans from East Africa,should be proud that Selma Carvalho, someone who had never set foot on African soil before, has done so much in preserving a slice of our history for posterity. None of us, former British Goans from East