New Arrivals - Basketware

Just in from West Africa are new shapes in the Market basket range.

They're deeper, rounder, and have a greater capacity than the traditional style baskets.

The thick, padded leather handle is also comfortable to hold, even when the basket is full.

Find them here -

 http://www.justafrica.com.au/products.asp?categoryID=23
 

- along with new stock of the traditional Market and Shopping Basket styles.

Independence Day in Tunisia

The word Tunisia is derived from Tunis; a city and capital of modern-day Tunisia.

The present form of the name, with its Latinate suffix -ia, evolved from French Tunisie.

The French derivative Tunisie was adopted in some European languages with slight modifications, introducing a distinctive name to designate the country.

 The name Tunis can be attributed to different origins. It can be associated with the Phoenician goddess Tanith (aka Tunit), ancient city of Tynes or to the Berber root ens which means "to lie down".

Text and Images courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia

The National Day of Ghana

 

The word Ghana means Warrior King and was the title accorded to the kings of the medieval West African Ghana Empire,

Geographically, the Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of modern Ghana, and it ruled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger River, in modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali.

Ghana was adopted as the legal name for the Gold Coast combined with British Togoland upon gaining autonomy on 6 March 1957.

To see products Hand-Made in Ghana go to http://www.justafrica.com.au/products.asp?categoryID=23 

Information courtesy of  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

Bishop Nelson visits Just Africa

Welcome to Bishop Onono-Onweng Nelson and his wife at Just Africa.

The Bishop was on a short visit to Melbourne, and spent some time discussing the making and supply of Ugandan Hand Craft.

Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng, born in 1945, was a primary school teacher for many years and joined the Ordained Ministry in 1976.

He subsequently became a school inspector and the director of the Lweza Training and Conference Centre, and in 1988 he was made Bishop of Northern Uganda Diocese.

He is the originator of numerous initiatives for peace and for fighting poverty.

Bishop Onono Onweng’s projects include a poverty-alleviation credit scheme he started in 1976, a non-governmental peace organisation called “Jamii Ya Kapatakanisha” created in 1992, and a technical school for orphans of war, the “Gulu Vocational Community Centre”, founded in 1994.

In 1998, he also started the “Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiatives” (ARLPI), an inter-faith forum for peace. In 2000, Bishop Onono Onweng received the Uganda Peace Award.

Bishop Nelson is also a recipient of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.

Information from the website of unesco.org

Christmas 2011

Lots of goodies now in stock for Christmas. To see more pictures: click here