Products of Tanzania available in the USA
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.
- Mt. Meru Coffee Project Fair trade coffee beans from the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. www.mtmerucoffee.org
- Café Mbeya, Level Ground Trading, Ltd. Fair trade organic Arabica coffee from Mbeya Region. www.levelground.com 1-888 565 6633
- Outreach Africa, Singida beans roasted in Iowa. All proceeds go to the work of Outreach Africa in Singida area. All bags come inside a handmade bag with a carved animal decoration. www.outreachafrica.org/coffee.php
Tanzanian Candy / Chocolate
- Dark Chocolate Sauce – great for ice cream. www.lakechamplainchocolates.com and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters at www.greenmountaincoffee.com
- Regular Chocolate Candy Bars and packages of 100 small individual tea table size 85% cocoa from Tanzania. Again, www.lakechamplainchocolates.com
Tanzanite
- Beautiful blue gem stones and certified jewelry from Mt. Kilimanjaro. www.Tanzanite.com
- Amazon.com and Ebay.com have Tanzanite from the very expensive to the low cost.
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
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 www.alibris.com and other older Books sites.
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:
- SERRV International through its program “A Greater Gift”, a Brethren Service Center: www.agreatergift.org.
- Global Sister Goods: www.globalsistergoods.com
- Catholic Relief Services: www.crs.org
- Equal Exchange www.equalexchange.com