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Check out these websites for your holiday season gifts, thank you gifts, birthdays and a special gift for yourself. We are just beginning this section of the FOT site and would like your suggestions for more products. Please note that FOT suggests buying Tanzanian products, but does not endorse or advertise any of these products. Nor do we sell any of these products other than our own T-Shirt. Please go to the websites listed to purchase these products.
Tanzanian Coffee
First of all, ask Starbucks, Caribou Coffee and Seattle Best Coffee for Tanzanian coffee. Keep up the pressure. Sometimes they do have it.
Tanzanian Candy / Chocolate
Tanzanite
Tanzanian Handicrafts
- Ten-thousand Villages has a handcraft collection called Kwanza Collection from 800 Tanzanian artisans as well as other Tanzanian basket products. 25 wood carvers from Dar es Salaam contribute to the Mikon Collection there. Search by “Tanzania" on www.tenthousandvillages.com
- Outreach Africa, beautiful baskets made by women in Singida. All proceeds go to the work of Outreach Africa in Singida area. www.outreachafrica.org/bcupdate.php
- Zizini is an East African store in Hyannis, Massachusetts which sells carvings, paintings, coffee, jewelry and other products of Tanzania. They especially support Tanzanian artists and craftsmen. Check out www.zizini.com.
Tanzanian Artists in the USA
- Hussein Saidi, a full-time Tanzanian artist lives in Maryland. He uses Tanzanian themes of family and community in his contemporary artwork in mediums of both acrylic and natural fiber. He is widely honored and exhibits throughout the USA. www.ujamaart.com
Children’s Books with a Tanzanian Theme
Children’s books by the following authors are available through book outlets such as www.Amazon.com and www.alibris.com
- Stephanie A. Stuve-Bodeen, a Peace Corps Volunteer 1989-90 has written many successful children books including 4 about Tanzanian life from 1998 – 2003 all published by Lee and Low Books: Babu’s Song, Elizabeti’s Doll, Elizabeti’s School and Mama Elizabeti
- Muriel Fielding (Author) and Tom Fieldings (Illustrator): Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, and Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book. Beautifully conceived and illustrated award winning books.
- Laurie Krebs, another counting book: We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania.
- Virginia Kroll, an East African story about the Masai: Masai and I
Other Books
- Harlan Bengston, Tunakumbuka, has compiled letters he and his wife wrote while Peace Corps Volunteers at Malangali Secondary (boarding) School, teaching mathematics and physics. Prepared for his grandchildren, it presents a story of their experience (“We Remember") in Tanzania in the 1960s. While self-published, it is available on Amazon.com.
- George and Lory Frame, Swift and Enduring: Cheetahs and Wild Dogs of the Serengeti, published by E.P. Dutton in 1981. Former Peace Corps Volunteers describe the behavior, ecology and factors regulating the populations of these rare predators which they studied from 1974-1978. (This book is out of print but copies are available through the authors. Contact:
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- Dennis Herlocker, Buffaloes By My Bedroom, a Peace Corps forester’s experience in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the 1960s. He illustrates his experience with dramatic landscapes, milling herds of migratory animals, Maasai pastoralists and colleagues of all national and ethnic groups. For more information about his “adventure of a life-time", Amazon.com.
- Leonard Levitt, An African Season, was written shortly after Levitt’s Peace Corps experience as a teacher in Tanzania from 1963-65. Simon and Schuster. Now available through Alibris.com
- Frances Vavrus, Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania, studies education among the Chagga. Vavrus of Columbia University has written extensively about the challenges of education in Tanzania. This book is available through Amazon.com.
Tanzanian Music & CDs in the USA
Just for Fun
- Tusker Beer is sometimes available from Beer Distributor sites, but it is iffy and limited. Try www.BeerGeek.biz. Ebay has Tusker Beer T-shirts for sale.
- Friends of Tanzania T-Shirts - Contact us to purchase. Only “mediums" remaining.
Other Fair Trade Sites
Fair Trade sites will occasionally have Tanzanian products such as coffee, handicraft, baskets, jewelry etc. and can be checked for availability. These include:
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