During the Second World War in the 1940s when imported goods were scarce due to war, a team of two brothers known as Saidi Abeid and Mohamed Abeid become innovative and started manufacturing kanga in Dar Es Salaam, at Ilala. That type of kanga became known as Mohamed Abeid and though they were not at par with the imported kanga from India and Holland and Japan, they did serve the purpose, that of providing women with clothing during a period of acute shortages. ritual and symbol in kanga
Watu kadhaa wamenusurika kufa Dar es Salaam jana,baada ya jengo la ghorofa kumi kuporomoka na kufunika jengo jingine la ghorofa mbili lililokuwa likitumika kwa biashara na makazi ya watu.Jengo hilo lililokuwa likijengwa katika kiwanja namba tisa katika Mtaa wa Mtendeni eneo la Kisutu, lilikuwa refu zaidi ya maghorofa yaliyokuwa yamelizunguka.