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Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias Mombasa Goan School luminary                                                                                                                                 By Marci Pereira (April 2017) as part of the Project: Archiving Memories of Mombasa Goan School. An Icon to my mind Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias, ranks high amongst that notional, ‘Exclusive Club of Mombasa Goan School Luminaries’, as per my research.   He is the first of three school ex-students I am awa...

Mombasa Institute WITH the establishment of the Imperial British East Africa Company, the port and island of Mombasa became a vital gateway to the unexplored and undeveloped riches of Kenya and Uganda. It was also the starting point for the Kenya-Uganda Railways and Harbours. Towards the end of the 19 th Century there were already a number of Goan merchants as well as civil servants in the British administration and the mercantile service. Out of those, a few men founded at Mombasa, on November 1, 1901, the Goan Institute, the pioneer institution for all others that would come after through Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It was actually called the Goan Reading Room and was housed in rented premises in Ndia Kuu (it still existed in 2001) for Rupees 20 a month. The name chosen suggests that the members were keen to spend their leisure hours, after a hard day’s work, in reading as a past-time. As the activities of the Institute increased, it was suggested the name...

DISPLACED PEOPLE RE-SETTLED SUCCESSFULLY BY   ARMAND RODRIGUES Remember the burly, self-appointed African leader who gave himself a plethora of honorific titles, bedecked himself with an array of medals, and kept the severed head of an "enemy" as a prized trophy in his fridge?    Yes, he was also responsible for killing off thousands of his countrymen, including some of his well-educated Ministers who he saw as a threat to his grave educational deficiencies or to his brute power. Also, when Britain refused to pander to his wishes for financial aid, he got some naive Britishers to carry him on their shoulders in a parade, and embarrassed Britain by captioning the photo “White Man's Burden”!     In case you have forgotten, he was none other than the infamous Idi Amin of Uganda. He is remembered for other atrocities too. In 1972, by means of Decree No.17 he summarily expelled some 60,000 Asian civil servants, businessmen and their families from ...