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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Designers seek new use for kanga as its colour fades Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — updated on December 25, 2020 - 4 min read. ... The cloth is largely associated with East Africa, ...

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 ...