Arts and crafts Tanzania

This new boutique is a must-see just before the tunnel, close to the central beach. Both an art gallery and a concept store, it offers a concentrate of good taste and fine local furniture. An address worthy of the rich Swahili interiors. You'll find plenty of gifts, spices, teas and infusions and local coffee in sophisticated packaging, paintings by contemporary artists far removed from the island's classic style, photos, furniture, figurines and jewelry behind glass.

One can admire and buy the paintings of this Tinga Tinga painting cooperative. It is a style and a school, now well known in the field of contemporary African arts, born in Dar es Salaam in the early 1970s. Tinga Tinga paintings are part of the Ndonde tradition of wall art, which decorates their huts with these drawings of animals and characters. The style became famous thanks to a Ndonde, Edward Saidi Tingatinga, who popularized it in Dar.

This workshop, located on the other side of the Karakana street railway, is very famous in Moshi. It has been making all kinds of objects made of leather, wood or other 100% natural materials for almost 30 years: accessories, furniture, African handicrafts, etc. Its particularity is that the objects made and exhibited here are of very beautiful workmanship and are worth quite a lot. Luxury hotels come here to buy furniture, decorative objects and other home accessories. One finds for example handbags, precious notebooks...