Nairobi — JUST OVER A CENTURY AGO, ON JUNE 13, 1905, a dark-skinned Muslim man named Tippu Tip, then aged nearly 70, died in Zanzibar. Of mixed Arabic and African descent, this man had over the ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ... in what is now modern Angola The most famous trader of all was Tippu Tip, (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson ...

Here Tippu Tip, the 19th century black African slaver, left a tangible legacy in his house, where 40 slaves were slaughtered and buried in the foundations to make the walls strong. In West Africa ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ... in what is now modern Angola The most famous trader of all was Tippu Tip, (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson ...

In many African societies there were no prisons ... produced notorious figures such as the legendary slave trader Tippu-Tip. The end of slavery? At the end of August 1791, a slave revolt began ...

A number of states in central and southern Africa collapsed in the 19th century ... and the Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip. Down in the South of the continent the beginning of the 19th century ...

For Tippu Tip was the CEO of a giant enterprise that traded in humans ... s shit is perfumed over with cloves by the time visitors arrive?” We believe that Africa is poorly represented, and badly ...

Tippu Tip was renowned as an Arab slave trader, but he was as black as your hat. His grandmother was a black African woman. His Arab and Swahili co-religionists never held this against him.

and Hamid bin Muhammad (known as Tippu Tip), a mixed African-Arab trader employed by the Sultan of Zanzibar and later by King Leopold. Drawing on these men’s autobiographies, as well as other ...

It has been very different with another Central African slave trader. Although Mlozi bin Kazbadema, better known simply as Mlozi, may not have the importance of Tippu Tip in the story of ...