Reporting from Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania — It was time to paint the second giraffe. “What color do you want him?” Mwatatu Swathe, our tour guide for the day, asked. “Blue? Green? It’s Tinga Tinga. It can ...

His art is quite different from the recent Tinga Tinga copies one sees in all the markets of East Africa. It was more naïve, usually with a plain background and one subject such as the spotted leopard ...

Kenyans’ initial encounter with Tinga Tinga has come from the Saturday morning animated television show, ‘Tinga Tinga Tales’ that has been turned into a meta-franchise featuring Tinga Tinga toys, ...

This exhibition introduces visitors to the popular Tanzanian art form of Tinga Tinga, which takes its motifs from the nature, wild animals, and everyday life of this East African country. In addition ...

Tinga Tinga paintings, with their vivid colours and nature themes, have become synonymous with art from East Africa. Original to Tanzania, Tinga Tinga is being celebrated afresh with a new exhibition ...

London — Tiger Aspect's Head of Animation and Children's Claudia Lloyd travelled to East Africa and fell in love with Tanzania's Tinga Tinga art and the classic African children's tales about the ...

You don’t have to have an eye for art to appreciate a Tinga Tinga painting. Tanzania’s primary art form, which owes its origin in the 1960s to the eponymous artist E.S. Tinga Tinga, is defined first ...

Africa is rich in folklore and tradition. Now a Kenyan entertainment firm is hoping to turn the Tinga Tinga tradition of East Africa into a blockbuster TV animation series for children. Nairobi-based ...

Ever since the Kenya National Theatre got its ‘extreme makeover’ with assistance from East African Breweries back in 2015, it has hosted one major musical production after another. Thanks mainly to ...

But they should not crack their brains anymore, as the fascinating stories will soon make a grand comeback courtesy of Tinga Tinga Tales. This is an upcoming 52-part children’s series based on African ...