Selma Carvalho November 9, 2017 East African Goan History Bras Sousa: Goan Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar, 1892 Selma Carvalho November 9, 2017 East African Goan History By Selma CarvalhoIssue no. 6By every definition, elite Goans were what the Portuguese called assimilado. Except for their skin colour, they were bourgeois, metropolitan Portuguese who profoundly believed in the glory of Portugal.