May 15, 2020
Dress to Impress
Before black, there was colour. At least that’s what cultural expert Faridi Hamid says about buibuis. Colourful scarfs called kitambi, in thick, intricately woven material, were worn by Swahili women (and men) long before the Portuguese arrived at the shores of Zanzibar in 1503”, Zanzibari historian Faridi Hamid says. Writing about traditional dresses, no matter
