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- Cultural Heritage Centre Arusha Arusha, Tanzania
On the edge of Arusha, the Cultural Heritage Centre gathers a vast gallery of Tanzanian and pan-African art, Makonde carvings, and Tingatinga painting, alongside curio shops and a tanzanite jewelry section. The architecturally distinctive complex works as a single stop for Tanzanian crafts and fine art. store page → · open in the atlas → - Handmade From Tanzania Dar es Salaam / Online
Handmade From Tanzania is a maker in Dar es Salaam known for handwoven textiles using 100% Tanzanian-grown cotton, spun and dyed at their workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Shanga Arusha, Tanzania
Shanga is a social enterprise that employs people with disabilities to make glass beads, jewelry, textiles, and homeware, much of it from recycled materials. Visitors to its Arusha workshop can watch the glass-blowing and weaving and buy directly from the makers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sidai Designs Arusha, Tanzania
Sidai Designs works with Maasai women artisans to create contemporary beaded jewelry, homeware, and accessories grounded in traditional Maasai beadwork. Every piece is handcrafted in its Arusha workshop, providing fair, stable employment. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Tanzanite Experience Arusha, Tanzania, Tanzania — tanzanite mined near Merelani, Arusha
Tanzanite, the blue-violet gemstone found only near Arusha at the foot of Kilimanjaro, is the sole focus here. Part of a mine-to-market operation, the Arusha store sells certified loose stones and jewelry and runs a museum on the gem's geology and mining. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tingatinga Art Centre Dar es Salaam / Online
Tingatinga Art Centre in Dar es Salaam — Authentic Tingatinga paintings and watching artists at work in the tradition founded by Edward Saidi Tingatinga. store page → · open in the atlas →
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- Alko Vintages (Dompo Wine Cellar) Dodoma
A homegrown Dodoma winery bottling under the Dompo Wine Cellar name from grapes sourced from family-owned vineyards in Tanzania's central region. Vines are hand-harvested and semi-organically farmed, irrigated with spring water drawn from the Udzungwa range of the Eastern Arc Mountains. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cetawico (Central Tanzania Wine Company) Hombolo, Dodoma
Engineer Fiorenzo Chesini and the Fondazione San Zeno revived an abandoned mission vineyard experiment in Hombolo village in 2004, opening the cellar in a refurbished grain store the following year. It farms Teroldego and Marzemino alongside Aglianico, Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc at 1,100 metres, producing organic wines as a combined commercial and social enterprise. store page → · open in the atlas → - DANE Wine Nkulabi, Dodoma
Founded by engineer Danford Semwenda and his wife Neema, who planted grapes in Nkulabi village in 2009 following a family grape-growing line that reaches back to the 1970s. The estate presses Chenin Blanc and local Makutupora fruit into sweet reds such as NK Super and Sacramento alongside dry white and red bottlings, sold through agents in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanza. store page → · open in the atlas → - Domiya Estate Kilimani, Dodoma
Opened in 2018 in a renovated facility that once housed the 1970s-era Dodoma Wine Company at the foot of Imagi Hill. The estate pairs a winery hotel and restaurant with wine-tasting, producing its bottles in partnership with the Cetawico cellar. store page → · open in the atlas → - Enjipai Slipway, Dar es Salaam
Enjipai is a social enterprise that reworks traditional Maasai beadwork into pared-back contemporary necklaces made by Maasai women artisans. Its shop sits at the Slipway in Dar es Salaam, with a second counter on Kenyatta Road in Zanzibar's Stone Town. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mwani Zanzibar Zanzibar's southeastern seaweed coast (Jambiani/Paje)
Mwani Zanzibar turns seaweed grown by women farmers along Zanzibar's southeastern tidal flats -- the stretch of coast running through Jambiani, Paje, and Bwejuu where the crop has been cultivated for generations -- into facial cleansers, soaps, and body oils. The company pays its harvesters well above the standard raw-seaweed rate and ships the finished skincare directly from its own site to the US, Canada, and Europe. store page → · open in the atlas → - Rangi Gallery Dar es Salaam
Rangi Gallery represents Tanzanian contemporary painters and mixed-media artists, showing and selling their work through rotating exhibitions in Dar es Salaam. The shop carries individual artist profiles and original pieces rather than mass-produced reproductions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Swahili Coast Tanzania (workshop; Dar es Salaam)
Swahili Coast designs beaded-leather sandals, brass jewelry and home goods produced by a worker-owned cooperative in Tanzania. The pieces are made in partnership with East African women artisans and sold directly through the label's own store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tingatinga Art Dar es Salaam
Working from a Dar es Salaam studio tied to the movement Edward Tingatinga began in 1968, this artist collective paints the enamel-bright birds, animals and village scenes that define the Tingatinga style. Each canvas is sold under the name of the Tanzanian artist who painted it and shipped directly from the studio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zanzibar Bike Shop Stone Town
Zanzibar Bike Shop sells, rents and repairs bicycles for Stone Town and coastal riding. Local route knowledge and mechanical support make it more useful than a simple equipment counter for visiting cyclists. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zanzibar Books & Stationery Stone Town
Zanzibar Books & Stationery is described as a Stone Town source for local history, culture, wildlife and Swahili learning materials. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zanzibar Spice Market Stone Town
The island's most spice bazaar with mounds of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and cardamom sold by knowledgeable vendors. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zanzibar Vanilla Plantation Shop Stone Town
Whole vanilla pods and extract from Zanzibar’s vanilla orchards, presented alongside the island’s wider spice-growing tradition and sold as locally rooted pantry goods. store page → · open in the atlas →