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InterviewVisual Arts
Painter Lubaina Himid on inequality in the art world: ‘Creative practices are being squeezed’
...Frequently, her paintings find their home on found objects: a wooden door bears fragments of patterns from east African kanga textiles — a regular source of inspiration for the Zanzibar-born artist....
October 21, 2023
Style
True colours: how clothes became a political tool
...The last section of the exhibition features a Tanzanian kanga from 2015, a printed cloth worn by women throughout east Africa, with a portrait of Barack Obama and a text in Swahili reading: “Congratulations...
September 22, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Tanzania
Tanzania’s ‘bulldozer’ Magufuli seeks second term as opposition cries foul
...Olivia Bitungwa admires Tanzania’s president John Magufuli so much that she went out and bought a sarong-like kanga imprinted with his face ahead of Wednesday’s general election. “He’s a good man....
October 27, 2020
The Art Market
Full steam ahead for Sotheby’s in Mumbai
...Now, says Ishrat Kanga, who heads up the auction house’s South Asian art sales, “We are on a positive trajectory and have had an incredible year.”...
October 24, 2019
FT Best ofExhibitions in London and beyond
Powerhouse festival of northern art
...Traditionally, kangas are cotton fabrics worn by east African women....
May 17, 2018
FT Magazine
Winnie-the-Who? Do children still care about AA Milne’s bear?
...at will; Piglet, the anxious Very Small Animal who just occasionally lifts himself to feats of great bravery; sergeant-major-ish Rabbit; pompous but ignorant Owl; bouncy, irrepressible Tigger; devoted Kanga...
December 1, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthChinese capital controls
Pandas take bite out of Hong Kong dim sum bond market
...Bankers’ penchant for catchy names for Asian bonds, from pandas and dim sum to kangas and masala, can invite some strained metaphors....
September 4, 2017
Life & Arts
How Alice’s look has reflected 150 years of fashion
...But viewed together in a new exhibition at London’s Museum of Childhood, the different interpretations show an extraordinary variety, from the crinolined original of Tenniel’s illustrations to the kanga-clad...
April 10, 2015
US & Canadian companies
United Technologies chief executive steps down without any explanation
...Edward Kangas, the lead independent director, will become non-executive chairman. Shares in the group fell 1.4 per cent to $108.79 by close of New York trading, following the announcement....
November 24, 2014
US equities
Spectrum cost concerns hurt US telecoms
...Edward A Kangas, lead director, has been elected non-executive chairman....
November 24, 2014
Fund management
Movers & shakers: August 25
...Nazneen Kanga has moved from Morgan Creek Capital Management to become a solutions strategist....
August 24, 2014
Life & Arts
The list: women on banknotes and other currency controversies
...A competition to generate ideas from the public led to a clutch of evocative suggestions, including “the Oz”, “the roo”, “the kanga”, “the boomer”, and even “the dinkum”....
June 28, 2013
Life & Arts
Tanzanian shopping safari
...Inside there is a much wider selection of womenswear, most of it fashioned from the traditional Swahili length of fabric called a kanga....
March 8, 2013
Life & Arts
Spring’s new look – nailed
...smells delicious and sinks into the skin easily; a nail brush, which – top tip alert – is even more effective when used with whitening toothpaste instead of soap; an emery board – Creative Nail Design’s Kanga...
April 5, 2013
Eurozone economy
Australian ‘kanga’ bonds bounce back
...Issuance of “kanga” bonds – debt raised in Australian dollars by foreign entities – all but dried up in the final months of last year as yields blew out because of the European sovereign debt crisis....
March 20, 2012
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewLife & Arts
The Man with the Disturbingly Smelly Foot/How to Think the Unthinkable, Unicorn Theatre, London
...Here two resolute individuals – King Creon (Neil Sheffield) and Antigone (Kanga Tanikye-Buah) – face each other down: she wants to bury her dead brother; he decrees that, as a traitor, he must lie unburied...
May 4, 2012
Capital markets
Hunger for Australian ‘kanga’ bonds rises
...Issuers have sold A$32.7bn (US$32.4bn) of so-called “kanga” bonds – which are those raised in Australian dollars by foreign entities – beating the previous full-year high of A$32.4bn recorded during the...
October 11, 2010
US healthcare reform
CHS takes $3.3bn Tenet offer to investors
...Kangas, Tenet’s chief executive and chairman, went on the attack. They said: “We are concerned that your growth has slowed dramatically and future ‘guidance’ will be difficult to achieve”....
December 10, 2010
UK economy
Doubt cast on Osborne’s ‘fair’ cuts pledge
...If the welfare state is losing weight it will have more impact in the UK than in Sweden and Finland,” says Olli Kangas, an expert on inequality from the Social Insurance Institute of Finland....
August 22, 2010
Global Economy
Beauty business turns heads in Brazil
...As summer approaches, many women embark on a diet and beauty regime known as verão sem kanga, or beach-robe-free summer, often lasting for three months or more. Another driver of sales is the climate....
January 19, 2010
Life & Arts
Kenya courts a new clientele
...“I first came to Lamu when I was 11 and I remember being captivated by the bright kanga and kikoy cloth, walking along the miles of empty and unspoilt white beach collecting shells with my mother and dodging...
July 25, 2009
ReviewLife & Arts
Colm Tóibín’s ‘Two Women’
...“I’ll make sure they have their kanga hammers and everything,” he said. “Yes, you do that.”...
January 7, 2010
UK schools
‘We tell each other that we are making history’
...At a weekly meeting they exude a vivid cosmopolitanism: a pink T-shirt saying “Love”, alongside traditional cotton kangas. Some hold mobile phones; others babies....
November 25, 2007
World
South Africa reacts with delight and dismay after Zuma is cleared of rape
...The ANC deputy president testified that she made sexual advances, including by appearing in his study wearing a kanga without underwear....
May 8, 2006
World
Zuma fights rape charge claiming political conspiracy
...She asked to stay the night, Mr Zuma testified, and came to his study clad only in a kanga, or sarong-type garment....
April 3, 2006

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