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My name is Georgia Fernandes- I am 21 years old, I want to write stories-stories that make people think, feel, believe and imagine . I want to make an impact. I have always wanted to tell stories, and so I started writing movie scripts. Most of my scripts surround strong women and put women in the main spotlight. Whereas some create feel-good experiences, others are more of a raw insight into what it means to be a woman living in this world. ‘Mercy' is possibly the most special script I've written because it represents the bravery, resilience, and perseverance that thousands of young girls around Africa possess. 'Mercy' is a combination of hundreds of different real-life stories affecting girls below the age of 15. 'Mercy' is not a film that begs for sympathy- it strives for change; in the hope that everyone who watches the short film will see how one wrong decision can affect multiple lives. I think stories like this that describe the courage that young A...

  100 years of the Irish in Kenya 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the ‘1916 Rising’ in Ireland, a milestone on the country’s road to achieving independence in 1922. To commemorate that event, the Embassy of Ireland in Kenya organised an exhibition chronicling the presence and contribution of Irish people in Kenya since 1916. This article draws on the themes of that exhibition. (Kenya Past and Present, a publication of the Kenya Museum Society, which continues to do a sterling job)     The Irish have a long tradition of travel and emigration. Today, an estimated 70 million people worldwide claim Irish ancestry and heritage — among them former US President, Barack Obama, whose other heritage is Kenyan. The Irish came to Kenya as entrepreneurs, teachers, doctors, coaches, aviators, farming and motoring pioneers, workers in nongovernmental organisations, and especially as missionaries, both religious and lay. The Kenya they encountered mirrored in many ways their...

 In October 2022, India hosted the FIFA Women's under 17 World Cup in India and Goa was one of the three venues. Tanzania was one of the teams taking part and I was able to meet with the Tanzanian officials. They gave me a complimentary ticket to sit with them in the VIP stand at the Fatorda Stadium. For an old Tanzanian it was an excellent experience.

  WHY DID I DO IT?   That is a question that most East African Goans would like to ask me about writing my books but never do. The answer is quite simple, really. Two years after I lost my wife Ruffy (2007) I was lost. I desperately needed to find myself again. After several visits to a psychiatrist and a psychologist who, after a month, told me “There was nothing wrong” with me. Their advice was: just do what you love best. That was quite simple, from a very early agency, even before I was eight years old, I love to write and tell stories, even yarns that I used to make up. At the age of 11, my classmate Bill D’Silva and I wrote a one-word play for the school presentation. It was called Rumour which began with the line: Have you heard, Father Hannon, the parish priest and principal, tripped at the gates and did a bit of dance to save himself from falling (or words to that effect)? Everyone in the room was asked to contribute their version of the rumour and it ended up with Ha...

  Suella Braverman is an English/British politician full stop.     1.       Will there always be a Goa in infinity OR will there be few or no Goan Roman Catholics, so much so that the Indian Government will return the country to its pre-Portuguese name? Some will this at some point, but it was the Roman Catholic Goans who made Goa what it became: A tourists’ paradise for all. 2.       Oldies like me, nearing their 80s and others who are past that, may cling on to their “Goanness” but our children and their children and subsequent new members of the clan will surely be thoroughbred Brits, Aussies, Canadians, Yanks, etc if they are not that already? It matters very little or not at all in mixed marriages, which is common as ice and snow and sun and rain. A good thing too, by all accounts! 3.       If you are a member of the parliament (in any country) you can forget about your ethnic origins, which m...

  Buffalo in Amboseli National Park, Kenya   In August, I sent out a Bing Image of Amboseli National Park and its link to Ernest Hemingway. Here is another photograph taken in Amboseli with a splendid view of Kilimanjaro and Cape buffalo in the foreground. Buffalos are usually listed among "The Big Five". An African buffalo is a dangerous animal, mean and unpredictable. A pride of lions will attack a lone buffalo but if a herd happens to be nearby, they will rush to the defence of their beleaguered comrade, Lions have great respect for the strength and power of these powerful beasts and their lethal horns that can gore and toss full-grown lion several feet away. More often than not, the pride decides that discretion is the better part of valour and retreats to a safe distance to lick its wounds and wait for safer prey.   An adult African buffalo is slightly smaller than his cousin, the American Bison. Both are about 11' long and about 2000 lbs. in weight. B...