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Textile Heritage of Tanzania

Alongside the coastal kanga, Tanzania shares in the kitenge tradition — a wax-print cotton cloth worn across much of East, Central, and West Africa rather than unique to any single country. In Tanzania it remains a widely worn everyday fabric, distinct from the proverb-printed kanga in both pattern scale and use.

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Alongside the coastal kanga, Tanzania shares in the kitenge tradition — a wax-print cotton cloth worn across much of East, Central, and West Africa rather than unique to any single country. In Tanzania it remains a widely worn everyday fabric, distinct from the proverb-printed kanga in both pattern scale and use.

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