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My parents came back to Sweden from Tanzania and bought two Tinga Tinga paintings. I was fascinated by them and decided to write a research paper. It was difficult to find literature, I used exhibitions catalogues. In order to get more information I interviewed Barbro Johansson who lived in Uppsala
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utstÀllningskataloger frÄn TingatingautstÀllningar. För att fÄ mer material intervjuade jag Barbro Johansson som dÄ bodde i Uppsala. Hon var mycket pigg trots Ären. Jag vet inte var Barbro fick uppgiften om att han var född i Mocambique ifrÄn och eftersom hon tyvÀrr Àr död sÄ kan vi inte frÄga henne.
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heritage of the Makua traditional society, Edward Tingatinga should be considered of Makua descent. As a child, he was mostly cared for by his mother's family. Eventually, the relationship between Agnes Ntembo and Saidi Tingatinga broke down. Agnes Ntembo had three more sons with two other partners,
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Mina förÀldrar var nyss hemkomna frÄn Tanzania dÀr de hade kommit i kontakt med Tingatinga och de hade köpt tvÄ tavlor. Jag fascinerades av fÀrgerna och formsprÄket och beslöt mig att skriva en uppsats om Tingatinga. Det var svÄrt att hitta litteratur, jag anvÀnde mig bland annat av
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The Tingatinga painters, the Tingatinga Arts Co-operative (TACS), and members of Edward's family (including his living son and daughter Daudi and Martina, his brother-in-law Gallusi and his half brother Omari Amonde), as well as scholars and art traders (among them,
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Mia Terent hÀnvisar i uppsatsen, nÀr det gÀller Tingatingas hÀrkomst, till en intervju hon gjorde den 12 maj 1996 med legendariska "Mama Barbro", f. tanzaniska parlamentsledamoten, svensk-tanzaniska missionÀren Barbro Johansson
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In 1972 Tingatinga was accidentally killed by a policeman who mistook him for a fugitive. The Tingatinga school survived, and grew in size and relevance. Through Tingatinga's followers and imitators, the
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name "Said". Also, Tingatinga's first name is sometimes spelled "Eduardo", something that might be related to the arguable claim that Tingatinga was of Mozambican descent; see the "
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residents and tourists, so that he was able to work full-time as an artist. He later gathered a group of apprentices and followers, that would later organize themselves into the
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rather than Tanzania. According to Daniel Augusta of the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society, all these sources can be traced back to a mistake found in 1996 article by
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and Cesilia Mpata. Simon Mpata, as well as Agnes Mpata (Cesilia's daughter) would later follow Edward's footsteps and join the society of painters he would found.
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Mia Terent did interview the legendary "Mama Barbro" on 12 May 1996, the former member of Tanzanian parliament and Swedish-Tanzanian missionary
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of northern Tanzania; later, he was invited by his uncle Salum Mussa Mkayoga (also known as Mzee Lumumba), who worked as a cook of a
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Mindu, the nearest village to Namochelia where E. S. Tingatinga was born. Daniel Augusta on motorbike, Mindu (2009)
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Edward Tingatinga was born from a poor family. His mother, Agnes Binti Ntembo, belonged to the
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style gradually became the prominent type of tourist-oriented paintings in both Tanzania,
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The issue of Tingatinga's birthplace is the subject of a controversy; see the "
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Tingatinga Cooperative which was established by the family of E.S. Tingatinga
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In a letter to the Tingatinga Society dated 7 October 2009, Sahlström wrote:
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In the 1950s, Edward left his mother and went to work in the plantations of
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Tine Thorup, Cuong Sam, Tingatinga - Kitsch or Quality (ThorupArt, 2011)
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His paintings were made using recycled, low-cost materials, such as
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Tingatinga was born in 1932 in a village called Namochelia, in the
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in southern Tanzania, near the border with northern
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