IN AFRICA: PART I GIA
ern and central Africa from the 19th cen tury to the present. Part II will look at eastern and western Africa, as well as the history of diamond prospecting, n~ining, and production on the African continent. lthough diamonds have been known for more than 2,000 years, with the earliest discoveries in India, largescale mining and distribution date only from the late 1860s and the first finds