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. B...
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