The Story
The chapters of our record.
Read it in order, as it happened — or step into any chapter and stay a while. Each one holds photographs, documents, voices and the places they belong to.
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I
Origins
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This chapter will be developed as family memories, photographs and records are added to the archive.
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II
East Africa
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Tororo
III
Uganda
Tororo is where Dada Abu worked, where he died, and where he is buried. The rest of the family's Tororo record is still being gathered.
Family memory records that Noor Ginai — Dada Abu — worked at the UCI cement factory in Tororo and that the family had houses in the town. The locations of those houses have not yet been recorded.
This chapter will be developed as family memories, photographs and records are added to the archive.
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Mombasa
IV
Kenya
Family memory places the earliest recorded Ginai working life at the Mombasa port railway yard.
Family memory records Allah Ditta Ginai working in the railway yard at the Port of Mombasa, and his son Noor beginning his working life beside him. Makupa Quarters and the Ahmadiyya Mosque / Masjid Rehman are remembered as family locations; exact addresses have not yet been recorded.
This chapter will be developed as family memories, photographs and records are added to the archive.
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V
The World
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This chapter will be developed as family memories, photographs and records are added to the archive.
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VI
Today
This archive exists so that no grandchild has to ask a question no one is left to answer.
The archive is being assembled now. Every photograph uploaded, every voice recorded and every journey retraced adds to it — and nothing is written here as history until the family has supplied it.
“Our ancestors left us their legacy. It is now our responsibility to preserve it.”
The Ginai Heritage Project