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    The Oldest Bar at the Kenya Coast - Kilindini Bar *A C De Souza & Co,  A truly great Goan success story! The eternal courage of Mrs Abranches, battled until victory was finally hers. Many, many people tried to squeeze her heritage but she stayed the good fight, never gave in, never surrendered, in the end it was her father's gift to her and she is now blessed with it. Kilindini Bar,  Mombasa’s oldest bar was founded in 1908 by Alex Caetano De Souza and has been run by the family ever since. The current proprietors are Maura and Clarence Abranches. Mrs. Maura Abranches is granddaughter to the bar’s founder and took up the bar’s running after her elder sister, Grace, passed on. The bar couldn’t have been run by a more history-conscious family. Their record keeping and mindfulness of the antique possessions is impeccable. It has a fan that was brought in from Germany in 1932 that is working to this day and a pendulum clock hanging on the wall brought in from Ame...

 

 

    With sincere thanks …. I am Goan I am Kenyan I am British I am Australian I am a man of many parts, from many places but right now the whole of me is Australian. Many events, many people, many, many places, much, much luck, some coincidence, many surprises … all of these ingredients have fashioned my life. Until the last sunset arrives, I will be eternally grateful for being blessed with the family I have had and the life I have led. As the cliché goes, I might have done one or two things differently, but then again, there really isn’t very much I would change. Being born in Kenya was perhaps the greatest blessing of all. What a country, what flora, what fauna, what natural beauty and what a diverse, wonderful people. The spectrum of life is a creation of myriad trillions and more of specks. Each speck, good, bad, or ugly has its own space in the universe of things but Kenya will always remain my earth mother and one which I was privileged to have loved with ...

 

  trevorgrundy  news World news and background Skip navigation Home Current News Book Reviews Obituaries Religion Interviews Features & Analysis My Books Christian leaders in Britain stay silent as graves as millions face starvation in Gaza Posted: 14 May, 2025 | Category: Uncategorized A statue of the Madonna with a child at Ripon Cathedral in Yorkshire.  Three Mother and Child  sculptures  in copper by the York artist Harold Gosney attract a great response from visitors. Love of children is central to the Christian message. (Picture: Trevor Grundy   By TREVOR GRUNDY In March 1960, sixty-nine Africans were shot dead at Sharpeville. The name Sharpeville and the figure 69 symbolised the horror of apartheid. For decades after Anglican and Roman Catholics clerics, often with small children on their shoulders, marched around Trafalgar Square to show their  disgust at the political system in South Africa. Today, its more of the same. Just in a ...

  Yesterday in Paradise – A Goan journalist remembers days of sunshine and sorrow in Kenya Posted: 27 December, 2019 | Category: Book Reviews Yesterday in Paradise 1950-1974 by Cyprian Fernandes (Balboa Press, Australia 2017)   Review by TREVOR GRUNDY   “History,” says a character in Louis de Bernieres’s novel Captain Corellis’s Mandolin ,”ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are caught up in it.” Yesterday in Paradise by Cyprian Fernandes is an anecdote-driven non-fiction book that paints a moving picture of the rise of an impoverished Goan teenager from the backstreets of the Asian quarter of Nairobi to a position of  importance in the Kenyan media between the mid-1960s, through to the mid-1970s. As such, it is an important contribution to our understanding of the problems facing ethnic and religious communities in post-colonial countries. There are other books that tell you more about the Goans and their history. But for a full taste of...