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Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017

Passage to Kenya: Imperial Exploitations

Selma Carvalho
March 10, 2017
Passage to Kenya: Imperial Exploitations

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: A Passage to Kenya by Lawrence Nazareth). This notion of Asian racial superiority never subsided and it manifested most malignantly in the work place to ensure African grades were at the bottom tier.

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Goan Aunty

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

By Christine Russon

Issue no. 2

These descriptions of Yvonne Gonsalves as the devoted wife, disregarding her status as an accomplished musician, exemplify what Fatima da Silva Gracias wrote in the introduction to her book.

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Interview with Roanna Gonsalves

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Interview with Roanna Gonsalves

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 2

The decision to marinate my characters in the brine of a Bombay Goan Catholicism was in part inevitable, because that's the culture I know best.

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Pioneer Women of East Africa

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Pioneer Women of East Africa

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 2

The declining fortunes of Portugal and the stagnant Goan economy, made an East African Goan groom a prized catch even amongst the landed gentry. Image of Ezalda Abuquerque and family courtesy Yvonne Dias.

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Reading Goan Women

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Reading Goan Women

By Christopher Larkosh

Issue no. 1
The recurrent question that current instances of engaged research present may compel us to ask once again: can we be simply be content with mediating the testimony of subaltern, silenced or suppressed cultural others ...
Image credit Frederick Noronha

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Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017

Goan Institute Nairobi, 1905

Selma Carvalho
February 8, 2017
Goan Institute Nairobi, 1905

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 1

Such barbarity barely made a dent in the Goan consciousness. Never did a protest or condemnation ensure from them on such matters.

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