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Tanzania and Zanzibar are rich in culture and art. Below are some examples, and the final part where you find art ever visit Tanzania.

Carving mokonde a must buy if you admire African carving from Tanzania. Makonde people live in south-east Tanzania. This remote area of ??Tanzania became known ebony carving [mping] or hardwood. Modern Makonde sculptures are powerful carvings, each one unique. Their bodies are usually shetani - which is the spirit of demons and devils. Art is fluid and at the same time very angle. Traditionally, the most famous carving out in the field were male initiation masks and pregnant torsos reflecting the importance of women in their society. Outside North Arusha in Tanzania to the cultural heritage of the gallery stands twelve feet high and ten feet thick Mokonde carving. Carving is a single tree trunk and depicts intersecting data, portraying everyday life in Tanzania.

Tinga Tinga painting originating in Southern Tanzania and Mozambique and were painted from pigments found in nature, typical things to be painted, people and animals. Born in Mozambique, Eduardo S. Tingatinga but in the late 1960s moved and settled in Tanzania. He is credited with founding this art movement, which today, in his name, Tinga Tinga [sometimes spelled Tingatinga]. Traditionally painted on square wooden with a bright enamel colors of leaves, often painted on a black background. Tinga Tinga style of African art is painted in a friendly and naive.

Maasai are probably one of the widely recognized African tribes. And their beadwork is recognizable around the world. Maasai roamed the high grasslands of the Serengeti and Masai Mara in Kenya and southern Tanzania, northern centuries. Maasai beadwork carries messages from wherever you are and in which age group you belong to. Patterns and color bracelets are made separately for each age group, and women work together in groups that choose jewelry styles that will be accepted for the menfolk.

Red means DANGER, cruelty, courage, strength, and especially unity, because that is slaughtered when the community comes together to celebrate the cow's blood color.

Blue is important because it symbolizes the sky, which provides water for cows.

Green is important because it symbolizes the land that grows food animals eat. Green also represents the Maasai of public health, is a local plant called Olari that grows tall and plentiful, as the Maasai.

Orange is pumpkin with milk to visitors that are offered, and so is the color of hospitality color.

Yellow also suggests hospitality because it is from animal skin color bed.

White is the color of the milk that comes from cows, considered to be a gift from the gods Maasai people and so represents purity, as well as health, because it contains milk, nourishing community.

Black represents the people, but more significantly it represents the hardships of life.

Stone Town, Zanzibar is reputed to be 806 wooden doors dating from the 1870th The design originated from around the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and the Punjab. They first arrived in East Africa around 1500AD. It was the Sultan Barghash (1870-1880) - the third Omani Zanzibar that the doors became popular. Rectangular door is encased in intricately carved carved into the outermost lane circuits, symbols of evil spirits trying to enter a residence enslavement frame by frame. Eleven interlocking sections, a typical door.

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