The End of an Era .............. and A New Beginning

 

We are leaving our Armadale store in Melbourne after many years.

The website is temporarily on hold, and will be back in action in the New Year.

 

Many new products will be available, as well as many favourites.

 

Please look out for them.

 

Our contact details will also change, and will appear on the refreshed site.

 

A heartfelt 'Thank you' to our many loyal customers, who have supported us so well.

 

Don't despair - 'We'll be back!'

Africa - A Colonial Carve-Up

This map of 1888 shows the African continent, seen through European eyes in that period.

The land has been carved up and divided among the British, French, Germans and Belgians.

 

The only exception is Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) which remained independent. 

 

No attention was ever paid to inter-tribal relationships and local ownership.

 

This land grab laid the foundation for a great deal of the conflict which plagued African countries in the 20th century and beyond.

Yet African culture has endured and strengthened in many instances, and has greatly influenced Western Art and Music.

Not quite as Old as the Hills .....

 

Africa is considered by most anthropologists to be the oldest inhabited territory on the earth, with the Human species originating on that continent.

The discoveries of Fossils and of evidence of Human occupation, date from as early as 7 million years ago.

Several species of early ape-like Humans, are thought to have evolved into modern man.

Australopithecus afarensis ( dated to approximately 3.9–3.0 million years BC ), Parnthropus boisei ( c. 2.3–1.4 million years BC ) and Homo ergaster ( c. 1.9 million–600,000 years BC ) have all been documented.

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On This Day - Historic Deal to end Apartheid in South Africa

26 September 1992

President FW de Klerk and ANC leader Nelson Mandela reach a deal for the process to majority rule in South Africa at a summit in Johannesburg.

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