Edward Tingatinga

Tingatinga was born in 1932 in a village called Namochelia, in the Tunduru District of Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania, near the border with northern Mozambique.

His mother, Agnes Binti Ntembo, belonged to the Makua ethnic group and was a Christian, while his father, Saidi Tingatinga, was a Ngindo and a Muslim.

His style was naïve, bordering on surrealistic and humorous; most of his subjects were stereotypical African icons, such as wildlife or savannah landscapes.

Some of Tingatinga's followers in the Society (e.g., January Linda, Adeusi Mandu, Ajaba Adballah Mtalia, Casper Tedo, Simon Mptata and Omari Amonde) were Edward's or his wife's relatives, either Makua or Makonde.

[5] Mia Terent did interview the legendary "Mama Barbro" on 12 May 1996, the former member of Tanzanian parliament and Swedish-Tanzanian missionaryMia Terent hänvisar i uppsatsen, när det gäller Tingatingas härkomst, till en intervju hon gjorde den 12 maj 1996 med legendariska "Mama Barbro", f. tanzaniska parlamentsledamoten, svensk-tanzaniska missionären Barbro Johansson (1912–1999)In turn, Mia Terent wrote My parents came back to Sweden from Tanzania and bought two Tinga Tinga paintings.

Det var svårt att hitta litteratur, jag använde mig bland annat av utställningskataloger från Tingatingautställningar.

För att få mer material intervjuade jag Barbro Johansson som då bodde i Uppsala.

Jag vet inte var Barbro fick uppgiften om att han var född i Mocambique ifrån och eftersom hon tyvärr är död så kan vi inte fråga henne.