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Emmanuel : Biographies : Constantine G. Emmanuel (1923 - )
Constantine G. Emmanuel (1923 - )
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Surname: |
Emmanuel |
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Name: |
Constantine (Costas) |
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Middle name: |
none |
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Father: |
Emmanuel "Nisiotis", Gregory C. |
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Mother: |
Perrou, Irini D. |
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Birth: |
April 4, 1923 - Moshi, Tanganyika |
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Death: |
not applicable |
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Spouse: |
Georgiadou, Ekaterini B. |
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Marriage: |
March 3, 1951 - Moshi, Tanganyika |
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Children: |
Gregory (b.1953), Elli Efrosini (b.1956) |
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Costas is the second of four children. He attended primary school at Lambo, Tanganyika, in what later became his own house. He was taken by his mother to Athens, Greece, with his siblings to attend the Athens College (1933), where he excelled in track. During the occupation he was a member of EAM. He made excellent drawings, caricatures and watercolors from this period. Worked for No.1 Supply Depot, Piraeus (1944), civilian interpreter for British Army Military Police, Special Investigation Branch (1945). Returned to Tanganyika in 1945. General Manager Lambo sisal estate in Moshi, Tanganyika, partner in Tongoni and Lewa sisal estates in Tanga, Tanganyika. Frequent, extended hunting trips to South Maasailand and Ngaserai areas. Honorary Game Warden, South Maasailand. Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Chairman, Moshi Gun Club. Involved in unsuccessful shipping company with his brothers and other partners (1964). Lost everything after 1972 nationalization of Lambo, farmed beans at Sanya Plains with his brother Nicholas (1973-74). Returned to Greece (Spartis 3 Street, Athens), and worked in a Piraeus shipping office (1974). Became involved in an unsuccessful tourism venture on the Island of Tilos, Dodecanese (1976). Returned to East Africa as General Manager of Dwa Plantations Ltd., near Kibwezi, Kenya (1978). Greatly expanded areas under sisal and made Dwa highly successful and profitable. Purchased two semi-abandoned olive, chestnut farms at Hosti, Crete (1981, 1987). Costas and his son Gregory became the joint godfathers of Dimitri G. Emmanuel's second son, Constantine. Fully restored the farm house at Hosti (approximately 300 year-old structure). Retired from Kenya and returned to Greece (1990). He has traveled to Barrow, Alaska, and Fort Myers, Florida, to visit his children and currently spends winters in Athens and the rest of the year at Hosti. In February - March 2001, Costas revisited Dwa, in Kenya, and the former family estates (Lambo, Nakuru, Chombo), in Tanzania.
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