Amanda Leigh Lichenstein writing in Contrary magazine :
Some people think it was my love for a certain local fisherman that brought me back to Zanzibar. True, I did fall in love. But it was my obsessive love for kangas — those vibrant textiles inscribed with poetic Swahili text messages at the bottom — that truly seduced me. The ubiquitous kanga, worn by women all over East Africa, is the ultimate text message, mobile metaphor, stitched secret, the poem wrapped around one’s body in dazzling parades of ambiguity...[more]
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