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One of East Africa's outstanding, a multi-talented sportsman, Johnny Lobo who is 93, looks back on a cricketing career that can only be described as brilliant. He was also one of the most outstanding soccer goalkeepers, a stalwart of the wonderful Nairobi Heroes team for many, many years. There were three outstanding Goan cricketers in Kenya: C.M. Gracias, Blaise D'Cunha, Johnny Lobo. Johnny Lobo Memories of a brilliant cricketer By MICHELE LOBO The Early Years – My family’s Move to Kenya It was my father’s brother-in-law S.R. Rodrigues who was the first pioneer from our family who ventured out of Goa and crossed the Indian Ocean on a dhow with the Arab traders to Mombasa in 1895. Later he was instrumental in convincing my father Evaristo Lobo, that he could get him a well-paid Government job in Kenya. My father agreed and came over on a steamer in 1911 and began working. A few years later my father got extremely sick and returned to Goa. When he had recovered and was s...

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IF you are the children of the first pioneers of East Africa, is there any point in knowing the history of those first pioneers? If the answer is YES read on. Some of us on the fringe of the new generations of Goans wonder if there is a need to educate the younger generation of the Goan history outside of Goa. JERRY LOBO and I have been pondering a zoom session. However, the problem may that we are not able to find anyone who is still alive and who lived that history. A starting point is an excerpt below which is a clinical miniature history lesson by the outstanding LADIS DA SILVA who, with words, paints a majestic tapestry of the history of Goan’s first pioneers in East Africa. While Da   Silva focuses mainly on Zanzibar and Pemba, the story largely mirrors those experiences in other parts of Goan pioneers in Eastern Africa. Would love to hear from you: skipfer@live.com.au My father, Filipe Sebastiao De Souza, arrived in Kenya in 1928. Though early, he must have been the 3rd or...