I found this on the Net, hope it is of interest to some of my readers By Rosendo P Abreu I, as a retired officer from the Colonial Government of Kenya after over 30 years of service, look with pride at the part played by Goans in the Kenya Civil Service. The available records show that Goan immigration to British East Africa commenced during construction of the Uganda Railway, between 1897 and 1898, peaking in 1899 and 1900 when the Railway's Headquarters were moved from Mombasa to Nairobi. When the Imperial British East Africa Company was granted a Royal Charter in 1880, many Goans were taken into its service. When the Company surrendered its Charter in 1895 and control for administering the territories was transferred to the Colonial Office, most Goan employees were absorbed into various government departments. It was some time in 1905 that the Government headquarters shifted to Nairobi and thereafter the number of Goan employees started increasing...
Goans, East Africans et al