ABSTRACT
Most Goans in East Africa did not engage in shopkeeping like their Indians counterparts; rather they were mainly clerical employees, in the civil service and the private sector as well as artisans, especially as tailors and chefs. The extent to which Goan civil servants or artisans in East Africa contributed to miscegenation is difficult to ascertain. Nevertheless, as their population increased so was the likelihood of some of them by circumstance or otherwise to engage in interracial liaisons with African women. For the early migrants, loneliness was a contributory factor toward Goan–African sexual liaisons. The earliest liaisons would have been temporary, such as accessing the services of prostitutes in Nairobi following the opening of the Uganda Railway. One of the most well-known offsprings of Goan–African unions was Joseph Zuzarte Murumbi. Joseph Murumbi was born Joseph Anthony Zuzarte in 1911, to a Goan father and Maasai mother.
