For women in Tanzania's humid Dar es Salaam port city, the "kanga" is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth and mop too.

Book Review - The new book Common Threads (along with an accompanying video, both open access), explores the ties that bind India and Africa through the material medium of cloth, from antiquity to ...

The kanga name came from the Ki-Swahili term for the noisy, colourful guinea fowl with its spotted plumage. The traders started sending off for rolls of printed cloth in the new size, and a new ...

DAR ES SALAAM For women in Tanzanias humid Dar es Salaam port city, the 'kanga' is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth ...

Kanga is mainly manufactured outside of Africa. Maybe the popularity of a new generation of kanga will push African producers to revive local cloth industries. Also Read Mauritius: No cutting corners ...

In the hilly Rwandan capital of Kigali, 300 female survivors of the 1994 mass violence are stitching kanga cloth into cocktail dresses for Anthropologie stores and crafting braided banana-leaf ...

Models wear creations of bright colours and traditional cloth stitched into figure-hugging mini-dresses at Swahili Fashion Week in Dar es Salaam November 5, 2009.[Agencies] DAR ES SALAAM –For ...