Portrait of Tippu Tip, House of Wonders Museum, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (c. 1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي), was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He worked for a succession of the sultans of Zanzibar and was the Sultan of Uterera, a short-lived state in Kasongo, Maniema ruled by himself and his son Sefu who was an Emir with local WaManyema.
Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations. As part of the large and lucrative trade, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa, constructing profitable trading posts deep into the Congo Basin region and thus becoming the most well-known slave trader in Africa, supplying much of the world with black slaves.
He also bought the ivory from WaManyema suppliers in Kasongo, the capital of the Sultanate of Utetera, and resold it for a profit at coastal ports.
TippuTip, or Tippu Tib (c. 1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن...
to TippuTip, this time finding him at Kasongo, a further 300 miles (480 km) higher up the Congo River than Stanley Falls. While returning with Tippu Tip...
prohibition of slave trafficking from the interior to the coast was issued, TippuTip was among the best known Swahili-Arab traders. Having set out from Zanzibar...
Christian anti-slavery crusade. In 1886, while TippuTip was in Zanzibar, a dispute arose between TippuTip's fort at Stanley Falls (modern-day Boyoma Falls)...
of TippuTip, he was killed while fighting in the Congo–Arab War. In early 1887, Henry Morton Stanley arrived in Zanzibar and proposed that TippuTip be...
century. He was a member of the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of TippuTip he became Sultan of Ujiji. At one time he dominated the trade of Tanganyika...
South railway station, China Railway telegraph code TIP Trafficking in Persons Report TippuTip (1837–1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin...
Africa, TippuTip would shift his alignment towards the rising colonial powers in the region and at the proposal of Henry Morton Stanley, TippuTip became...
slave and ivory trade from Belgium and the Arab-Swahili chiefs such as TippuTip and Msiri, states Thomas Reefe. A prominent sociopolitical system of the...
abolishing the Arab slave trade. Furthermore, TippuTip and Leopold were commercial rivals. Every person that TippuTip hunted down and put into chattel slavery...
but when TippuTip learned that Stanley had survived, he was quick to act. Villages throughout the region were burned and depopulated. TippuTip had raided...
increasingly important in the region and slave traders (most notably TippuTip) became prominent in the political environment of the region. The Southeast...
TippuTip learned in Zanzibar that Stanley had survived, he was quick to act. Villages throughout the region had been burned and depopulated. Tippu Tip...
through the port. Many were captives of TippuTip, a notorious Arab/Swahili slave trader and ivory merchant. Tip led huge expeditions, some 4,000 strong...
containing cannibal tribes at which TippuTip based his trade in slaves. Stanley managed to hire a force from TippuTip to guard him for the next 150 kilometres...
a part of the Sultanate of Utetera, ruled by the Swahili slave trader TippuTip and associated with the Sultanate of Zanzibar. David Livingstone was the...
River to wait for more porters to be brought by the Arab slave trader TippuTip while Stanley marched on to reach Emin as soon as possible. During Stanley's...
main ports of East Africa for the slave trade. The famous slave trader TippuTip lived there. In 1846, the island had 360,000 enslaved for 450,000 inhabitants...
In 1886, he joined forces with the Arab slave trader TippuTip near Stanley Falls, where Tip was organizing resistance to Leopold II's Congo Free State...
important alliances were with Portuguese–Angolans in the Benguela area, with TippuTip in the north and with Nyamwezi and Swahili traders in the east, and indirectly...
sources, including column leader Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, slave trader TippuTip and the expedition leader, Welsh explorer Henry Morton Stanley. Conrad's...
Bi Kidude, singer David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary TippuTip, slave trader Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel prize laurates in literature. The...
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