Mohamed
Wasia CHARINDA (Mohamedi Charinda) (1947)
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Mohamed Charinda was born
in 1947 in the Nakapanya village, in the Tunduru district,
Rovuma region, south of Tanzania. He is married and has
six children.
Charinda
completed primary education and started painting in 1975
learning from Hashim Mruta,
a first generation Tingatinga painter. Charinda speciality
is painting people in village scenes or stories always
with a narrative or educational message. He has also depicted
his legend of Makua Inferno where all the bad people (thieves,
criminals, etc) will be tied together and then transformed
into semi-animal devils - shetani.
Charinda was the first
painter of the tingatinga school to change from masonite
boards to textile canvas in 1989.
source: "Tinga Tinga,
the popular paintings fom Tanzania", Y. Goscinny
and "Art in Tanzania 2001", Y. Goscinny
Mohamed Wasia Charinda at
his studio (c) 2007
Selected
exhibitions
Mohamed
Charinda GALLERY
