Zanzibari FAMILY who became GLOBAL SENIOR CITIZENS

Dear All Zanzibaris' - I am sharing this lovely post forwarded by Hazel for you all to read.

The FAMILY- of a "Zanzibari" The GOAN and other MINOR Minorities. who became GLOBAL SENIOR CITIZENS..

Hi Benny, this may have to suffice as my end of Summer thoughts - as I really want to focus on how "The few" the least little group of people I knew merged, assimilated and were subsumed, subjected subordinate to the whims and fancy of the Many the masses and the Masterminds in Control.

While you and I played marbles in Vuga we were known to all "the old" watu Mzee (over 55?) and young ( "standard four" ?) because of who our family, our parents and our friends were, while we lived in that small open space which today would be totally encolsed withing two acres- the size of the homestead I just left one year ago after living there for 26 years! I sent you a Photo you put in the Photos section of my Blog with you.

Before that I lived with my Family - in the Town we called our First Home in America. It was not where we landed and stayed for six months but the First Home Purchased and given rights of ownership, or stewardship of you like sailing on ships The Friendship Queenship Kinship or Hood child hood neighbourhood parenthood associations ... that make "Hoodies" as a way to identify.

I am wondering if any one in the UK Australia Canada or wherever your own Family Lives sees what I see, hears what I hear, and knows what I know about having a REUNION such as SJCSZANZIBAR 2005 Toronto and 2008 GOA why it had been planned and hoped for to have a REUNION 2023 that never happened.

I assured "my Family" it was because all those interested had
a) problems and dilemma that could not be over come.
b) No one in Zanzibar who could undertake the before and aftermath implied.
c) The claims to fame, had turned to blame and the shame game no longer worked and the realestate was such that no one like me who had lived there from birth until 22 could spend 2 weeks without wanting to go see where ... this that or the other event took place when my parents were there was there Dad 1928-64 Mom 1938-64 and I 1942 I would be driving everyone crazy writing and talking about this as they only known Zanzibar as the Home of Freddie Mercury whom I never heard of (I may have known his Parents as one of the Balsara's) and of course no one could even then mention how or the "The Sultans of Oman" had chosen this particular STONE TOWN to make their Headquarters in the Region that is to say the "SWAHILI ARAB" peoples of the WESTERN shores of the Arab Indian Ocean which as you know had no border between it and Sumatra Java its nearest other large Neighing Island ! from where the Clove Spices Amazing folks have their home BALI HAI .. !

Who can forget that on the FEAST of the HOLY FAMILY Dec 2005 Sunday after Christmas 2004 40 years after January 1964 AH HA! just before REUNION 2005, a TSUNAMI that originated in Banda Aceh Indo Nesia washed up stuff on the shores of East Africa months later.

The Climate experts wanted us to make the Connection no doubt. We are one Global People in a Global Pursuit of Happiness.

My Happiness Your Happiness and that of Connie Francis
'Evening shadow make me blue'  every time I think of you HM certainly true for all the FAMILY who once lived in Zanzibar as Grandchildren and grandparents... such as Your family did and the couple of others I knew who did have a Grandfather or Grandmother there with them and not a continent away!

Hazel