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Twilight of the Exiles
Cyprian Fernandes celebrates Goans who were forced to leave East Africa because of the policy of Africanisation. In their own words, their stores are told. Other friends from East Africa are also given voice. This was us, once.
Yesterday in Paradise
Author Cyprian Fernandes was born a war baby in 1943 in Kenya. Forced to leave school at the age of thirteen because he would not drop his pants for a caning, Fernandes experienced a wild and epic childhood. In Yesterday in Paradise, he tells his story growing up in colonial British East Africa. With a history of the region and the people originating from the state of Goa, India, and the Republic of Kenya, East Africa, woven in, Fernandes shares a host of stories that became a part of his first twenty-plus years. He was in the middle of the bloodcurdling Mau Mau rebellion and was arrested with thousands of others. He was there when Pio Gama Pinto was murdered. He embarked on an adventure that eventually took him to the four corners of the Earth. He travelled the length and breadth of Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe as an investigative reporter. Providing a look at Fernandes eventful past, Yesterday in Paradise narrates a memoir filled with prejudice, murder, conflict, and more. He shares the events, the people, and the many, many places that fashioned his life.
Stars Next Door
A tribute to the Goan sportspersons and musicians of East Africa. In Stars Next Door, author and investigative journalist Cyprian Fernandes attempts to right a historical wrong in a very small way -- a 280-page small way. He pays tribute to as many Goan sportsmen and sportswomen as possible who not long back graced the East African sports stage. This is perhaps the first attempt to do so. Similarly, he also turns the spotlight on East African musicians of Goan origin. The ones who brought song, tunes, music and dance into the lives of many, including the Goans who made a home many thousand miles away from their homeland. Published in Goa by Goa,1556.
Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset
Guerrilla Incursions into the Capitalist Mindset is an unprecedented collection of over 60 essays, interviews, petitions and letters as well as poems and short stories flowing from the pen of Shiraz Durrani. It is a treasure trove of truths that has so far been obscured by the information vacuum created by capitalism and its sister, imperialism. By reprinting out-of-print material, and bringing to light limited access information, this book supplies a new language for understanding and articulating our realities. This collection not only recovers and recollects the remnants of previous displaced history but also makes alternative ideas and experiences available. Remarkably, it sets the record straight by establishing a historical link between the arrival of the trade union movement from India through Makhan Singh, who began calling for independence in 1950, to the Mau Mau war of independence in Kenya led by Dedan Kimaathi, and the subsequent clash between socialism and neo-colonialism, which claimed the life of its champion, Pio Gama Pinto.
Twilight of the Exiles
TWILIGHT OF THE EXILES I DEDICATE THIS book (could be my last unless ...) to all the people who were forced to leave their birth-mother countries because of the Africanisation program enforced by the newly independent nations. I call these people, myself and my family included the exiles of eastern Africa. Most exiles have adopted and adapted to their new homes and countries of the diaspora. There are some, however, who will never forgive the Africans, especially the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for virtually chucking them out. It was generally a quite brutal exodus for most, but Idi Amin was particularly savage in forcing the Asians out of their beloved Uganda. Others knew from the very start...
Lies, Love, Blood
Lies, Love, Blood is living proof of duplicity craving wrath. Heed this cautionary tale as we track rascal and scholar Daiga, his loyal, faithful bride-in-waiting Mungwi, and his duped and deserted wife Monica in their three-ring circus of intrigue, passion and despair along Cameroon and Germany’s cultural crossroads. It drives home with a vengeance this timeless truth of war and wedlock: “We must love one another or die.” W.H. Auden
Sixty Years on ...
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Joseph Murumbi
In 1966, after serving first as Kenya’s Foreign Minister and then as Vice-President, Joseph Murumbi resigned from Government. Having concluded that the country had made a wrong turn away from a concern for the poor and the ideals he believed in, Morumbi told an old friend that he could no longer ‘be part of corruption in this country’. Tribalism, too, which was to take Kenya to the brink of disaster years later, had already become firmly entrenched, and he wanted no part of it. Today, Murumbi stands as a symbol of what Kenya could have become, and still could be. As the son of a Goan father and a Maasai mother, he disdained prejudice of any kind. As someone plucked from relative obscurity by Jomo Kenyatta thanks to his hard work and talents as an organiser, he was dismissive of those who depended on family or ethnic connections. And as a strong advocate of embracing and preserving African culture, he was a champion of African artists and their works. This book, which combines interviews done with Murumbi in the 1970s with historical information and recollections of the people who knew him.
