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  The Global Goan Wed 26 Aug, 23:15 (12 hours ago) to me I’m back!!! Yes, it has been some months that I have been off the circuit, and that resulted in suspension of your beloved magazine, The Global Goan… Well, I am guilty of not responding to the thousands upon thousands of messages that flooded my inbox; messages from readers and messages from you, our writers too. I’ve had a rather very rough patch with my health and that meant admission to the hospital several times and then, I injured my ankle and that called for surgery, which happened a few weeks ago.  The stitches are now removed and I will have to wear a special ‘boot’ for six weeks in all. My asthma is now much better and hospital visits have reduced dramatically with the use of a brand-new treatment recently introduced in Australia.  It is amazing how just one injection per month made all the difference.  I still have asthma – that has not gone away, but it is much better managed now.  Which brings ...

  The Global Goan Inbox The Global Goan Wed 26 Aug, 23:16 (7 hours ago) to me I’m back!!! Yes, it has been some months that I have been off the circuit, and that resulted in suspension of your beloved magazine, The Global Goan… Well, I am guilty of not responding to the thousands upon thousands of messages that flooded my inbox; messages from readers and messages from you, our writers too. I’ve had a rather very rough patch with my health and that meant admission to the hospital several times and then, I injured my ankle and that called for surgery, which happened a few weeks ago.  The stitches are now removed and I will have to wear a special ‘boot’ for six weeks in all. My asthma is now much better and hospital visits have reduced dramatically with the use of a brand-new treatment recently introduced in Australia.  It is amazing how just one injection per month made all the difference.  I still have asthma – that has not gone away, but it is much better managed now...

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  Cyprian Fernandes < skipfer43@gmail.com > Thu 26 Feb, 15:19 to andrew.charlton.mp Google me Cyprian Fernandes Journalist author (Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australia, The St George and Sutherland Shire Leader etc! Dear Mr Charlton: I am nearly 83 years old but not quite finished with writing, albeit a blog for the Goan community around the world heading toward two million hits and growing. I was hired by the Sydney Morning Herald, recruited from the UK. From that moment on, life has been pretty seamless ... we had already learnt of the Eurpean way of life having lived in UK, Kenya etc.  On arrival in Australia, we quickly took up Australian citizenship. We were handed a great booklet called "How to be a good Australian". The booklet filled the gaps that we were lacking about being an Australian. All the murder, death and mayhem happening in Australia from time to time made me think: Isn't everyone living here an  Australian? So why the murder, d...

    The Oldest Bar at the Kenya Coast - Kilindini Bar *A C De Souza & Co,  A truly great Goan success story! The eternal courage of Mrs Abranches, battled until victory was finally hers. Many, many people tried to squeeze her heritage but she stayed the good fight, never gave in, never surrendered, in the end it was her father's gift to her and she is now blessed with it. Kilindini Bar,  Mombasa’s oldest bar was founded in 1908 by Alex Caetano De Souza and has been run by the family ever since. The current proprietors are Maura and Clarence Abranches. Mrs. Maura Abranches is granddaughter to the bar’s founder and took up the bar’s running after her elder sister, Grace, passed on. The bar couldn’t have been run by a more history-conscious family. Their record keeping and mindfulness of the antique possessions is impeccable. It has a fan that was brought in from Germany in 1932 that is working to this day and a pendulum clock hanging on the wall brought in from Ame...

 

 

    With sincere thanks …. I am Goan I am Kenyan I am British I am Australian I am a man of many parts, from many places but right now the whole of me is Australian. Many events, many people, many, many places, much, much luck, some coincidence, many surprises … all of these ingredients have fashioned my life. Until the last sunset arrives, I will be eternally grateful for being blessed with the family I have had and the life I have led. As the cliché goes, I might have done one or two things differently, but then again, there really isn’t very much I would change. Being born in Kenya was perhaps the greatest blessing of all. What a country, what flora, what fauna, what natural beauty and what a diverse, wonderful people. The spectrum of life is a creation of myriad trillions and more of specks. Each speck, good, bad, or ugly has its own space in the universe of things but Kenya will always remain my earth mother and one which I was privileged to have loved with ...