Braz Menezes was born in the British colony of Kenya to immigrant parents from Goa (Portuguese India). He attended racially segregated schools to the age of seventeen, during which he also spent two years in a Jesuit-run boarding school in Goa. After graduation (Architecture) he travelled to Liverpool (UK) on a Royal Commonwealth Scholarship to study urban planning. He returned to Kenya in 1966. However within a decade, deteriorating political conditions forced him to bring his family to Canada in 1976, from where he was recruited by the World Bank (Washington DC) to work on international development. Since returning to Toronto in 2004 he has been active on various pro bono causes to help make Canada and the world a better place. His journey into the literary world did not start until after his return to Canada. He studied Creative Writing at George Brown College and later attended the Mentorship program at Humber College.
