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Salum MUSSA ("Mzee Lumumba"), 1926 - 1999

Born in Nakapanya in 1926, Salum Mussa came to Dar-es-Salam at a young age in 1943.

He is one of Edward Saidi Tingatinga's cousins and was already working in Msasani, Dar-es-Salaam, when Tingatinga decided to come to the capital. Tingatinga benefited of his cousin Salum's hospitality for several years. It is only in 1973, after Tingatinga's death, that Salum Mussa decided to start painting. He had seen his cousin painting so many times he did not need more teaching. He has since become one of the leading masters of the Tingatinga School.

Until Salum Mussa passed away in 1999, he could be found painting every day at the TACS centre at Morogoro Stores in Dar-es-Salaam.

source: "Tinga Tinga, the popular paintings fom Tanzania", Y. Goscinny