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As Lando, aged ten, emerges from the confessional booth, the reader is already embarked on an epic journey. The crossing of the first European around the Cape of South Africa in 1488 had significantly altered the course of history for part of Asia and much of Africa. The Author conveniently sets the scene with a map and short prologue connecting the dots of history. The cultural transformation of the people of Goa by the Portuguese, and the enslavement of Africans, particularly to the Americas and the Caribbean, is followed by in 1884, by the parceling of more than eleven and a half million square miles of Africa to seven European colonial powers, including Britain. Precocious Lando is born in British-ruled Kenya to Goan parents just as WWII breaks out in Europe. His parents are among those who flocked to East Africa from their native Portuguese India, lured with promises of a bright future. To British colonialists, the "Westernized Christian Indians" suited their needs perfectly. Lando's family and community struggle to keep their Indo-Portuguese heritage and Catholic faith alive in a Kenya dominated by the ugly reality of racial segregation based on colour. The 'browns' that include: Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians (Parsees) are sandwiched between the white rulers and the black indigenous population. But Lando's world is also filled with adventure, and readers will be transported in dhows and steamships across the Indian Ocean, and on land by ox-drawn carts, steam locomotives right along with the characters as events unfold. Ultimately, to fulfill his father's dreams, the eleven-year-old must embark on the biggest adventure of his life: journeying to distant Goa to attend a Jesuit-run boarding school--and then engineering his escape back to Africa. Beyond the Cape - the first in the Matata Trilogy - brings vividly to life the alluring sights, sounds, and smells of mid-twentieth century East Africa. The book is filled to the brim with evocative, multi-layered stories steeped in colonial history--stories that are alternately funny, sad, and touching as Lando grapples with the complexities of straddling two distinctly different worlds.

About the Author :
Braz Menezes was born in the British colony of Kenya to immigrant parents from Goa (Portuguese India). He attended racially segregated schools to the age of seventeen, during which he also spent two years in a Jesuit-run boarding school in Goa. After graduation (Architecture) he travelled to Liverpool (UK) on a Royal Commonwealth Scholarship to study urban planning. He returned to Kenya in 1966. However within a decade, deteriorating political conditions forced him to bring his family to Canada in 1976, from where he was recruited by the World Bank (Washington DC) to work on international development. Since returning to Toronto in 2004 he has been active on various pro bono causes to help make Canada and the world a better place. His journey into the literary world did not start until after his return to Canada. He studied Creative Writing at George Brown College and later attended the Mentorship program at Humber College.

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"Braz Menezes, already a recognized writer, emerges here as an adept and highly skilled long-form storyteller as well... His true-to-life characters live it in their day-to-day activities. The circumstances of life in Goa and Kenya, and the realities of the times, the struggles in Africa between the disparate colonizers and native peoples and immigrant groups and developments in Europe . . . all unfold naturally as they touch the Goan community and the lives of the characters." John Ambury -Poet, Writers and Editors NetworkMatata did not only touch my emotions, but also my curiosity. Although I have a huge interest in world history my whole life, never knew about Portuguese Goa ... I was touched so deeply by Menezes' book and could hardly believe it was his debut. Will take me quite some time to get back to reality. This story must be told and retold. The facts about segregation and unfairness towards humans hit me hard." Henriette Schalekamp-Roux - Durban, South Africa


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780987796349
  • Publisher: Matata Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Matata Books
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 286
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 1 Matata Trilogy
  • Sub Title: Sin, Saints. Slaves, and Settlers
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0987796348
  • Publisher Date: 14 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 385 gr


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