Tippu Tib or Tip Slave & Ivory Trader, Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886 to 1889

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Illustration from In Darkest Africa by H M Stanley 1890 this edition published 1904. From wiki: Tippu Tip or Tib (1837 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jum'ah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي), was a Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader. He was known by the people of the African Great Lakes as Tippu Tib after the sounds that his many guns made. An ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor, he worked for a succession of the sultans of Zanzibar. Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations. As part of the large and lucrative ivory trade, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa by constructing profitable trading posts that reached deep into the region. He bought the ivory from central African suppliers who sold it to him for a low price.

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Location: Africa
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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