Tingatinga Art has its roots from the Makua tribe of Lindi region in the Southern Tanzania. For many years this tribe has being using this form of art to portray their culture and tradition.
This art has been in practice before colonization of Tanganyika and was used the artists to express views opinions etc. paintings on the walls, leather, wood or on rocks and stones. These paintings reflect scenes of village or town lives, animals, birds or reflections of superstitious beliefs.
More recently, another indigenous form of art which is very colourful has been developed portraying life in the community, nature, evil spirits, etc. The founder of this form of art was a person from the "Makua" tribe of Southern Tanzania, called Edward Said Tingatinga. He was a talented artist with little formal education but succeeded in making very original paintings in a style not seen anywhere else in the world. This style of colourful paintings about nature and daily aspects of life in Tanzania is now well known abroad as indigenous Tanzanian art and has been named Tingatinga and now Mr. Jaffary has developed the art in honour of this pioneer artist who died in 1972.
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