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A kaleidoscope of Ismaili Khojas of Kenya  Thousands of Asians who left continue to seek answers as they did at Embakasi Airport in the 1960s. In Summary Next year will mark 50 years since the Great Asian Exodus from Kenya to the United Kingdom.  A new book chronicles one family’s painful journey. This subtle art writing offers, how in parts, the Khojas and Swahilis interacted at the coast. Somjee’s own family is half Swahili. Here, Somjee journals with sensitive finesse such that an absolute delight awaits the reader’s artistic eye and poetic ear. However, it is the women for whom the kanga sings its special song, who speak about the mixing and boundaries between the people of the two continents over centuries. By CYPRIAN FERNANDES More by this Author Title: Home Between Crossings Author: Sultan Somjee (Author of Bead Bai 2012) Publisher: CreateSpace (December, 2016) Reviewer: Cyprian Fernandes Though Asians had started leaving...

Braganca 10 Mai, whose son am I? Two months after receiving the news of the fortune bestowed upon him by the Braganca family, Abel (aka Shorty) boarded the SS Karanja at Mombasa for the voyage to Bombay and then by bus to Goa. The first part of the journey, from Nairobi to Mombasa, was by train belonging to the East African Railways and Harbours. The pioneering Mombasa to Kampala, Uganda, railway was nicknamed “The Lunatic Express”. Its history is worthy of several volumes for another time, another place. Suffice to say, travelling third class was no dream come true and they said in those days “it is, what it is”. Fortunately, Abel had the three seater bench all to himself and the help of some clothing for a pillow he slept through most of journey until they arrived in Mombasa the next morning.  WHEN colonial powers ruled over the whole of the Eastern African coast, the British India Steam Navigation linked India and Pakistan with Kenya, Tanganyika, Mozambique, South ...