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Taught me a lot a about the law during coffee sessions at the Town Hall cafe The first Goan professional journalist I ever met, the late Joe Rodrigues Some of the great men of the GI NAIROBI. the late Neves Vaz, Tony Reg D'Souza, the late Crescent Fernandes, the late David Carrasco (?) and other's whose names I forget sorry!  

  Meet the man who woke Nairobi up to life at night By DOUGLAS KIEREINI   Revellers enjoying a night out. Nairobi’s first hottest nightspot was situated at the confluence of Valley Road and Milimani Road on a site which was previously a church. It is now occupied by the Integrity Centre. By 1960, a new African middle class had begun to assert itself in Kenya. Armed with a good education, salaried income and the growing inevitability of an independent Kenya, a number of senior civil servants and middle management cadres in the corporate world started to move into residential areas formerly reserved for whites only such as Upper Hill, Woodley and Kileleshwa. Their children were enrolled in schools previously admitting white pupils only. Thanks to the efforts of Peter Colmore and his friend Ally Sykes this middle class had become exposed to Western and Congolese music and the attendant culture of upmarket nightclub life.It was in the same year that a young man, Robert W...

  Nonna! JULIE LAVAL 1935-2021 Mystic Gardens in Westlands. L to R front row Jimmy, Ligia , Julie Laval, Nicole (Tootie) Laval, Sam Butler L to R back row: Floyd Laval, Ken Laval, Gordon Butler, Gavin, Patrick Butler and Jackie Fernandes.   FOR ALL OF HER LIFE Julie Laval charmed everyone she met. With that heavenly smile, it was easy, but it was not a put-on. She never lost that smile either. She loved people, especially the very, very young people. The Julie I knew in Nairobi was a fabulous dancer and an even more fabulous singer. She was one of the first women to sing on Voice of Kenya television, I was the show’s MC. She had all of her children to worry about, yet she never said no to anyone who needed help. Life was never easy but Julie never lost that smile. She once told me that it was her smile of hope because there was no point in putting any creases in her face, so she smiled and the world smiled with her. I spoke to her many times from Sydney Australia and...

  Seychellois, Mauritians Once upon a time in Kenya   Gillian Burke: a talented filmmaker DRAFT Someone else will chronicle their histories, I would like to remember their parents and grandparents who were forced to come out of Africa or never left Africa. We must remember them. THERE WERE several lapses of mind while I was growing up and even in adulthood in Kenya. I did not even think of chronicling the history of the Goan community in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. I never thought that many decades later I would get an insatiable itch to do just that: write the two stories of the two communities I sort of belonged to, the Goans and a combination of Seychellois and Mauritians (there were not too many of them). I made a minor effort with the Goans story by writing three books. It would have been much easier to write the stories, especially in Kenya. I could have visited their homes and interviewed various members of the family. With all three communities, I would have ...