Tippu Tip, 1837-1905
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), July 15, 2016(Tippu Tib, also called Muhammed bin Hamid; b. 1837; d. June 14, 1905 in Zanzibar, now in Tanzania; the most famous late 19th-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa; active in ivory trade; by the late 1860s he established a loosely organized state in eastern and central Congo River basin; accompanied British explorer Henry Morton Stanley along the Congo River in 1876-77; in 1883 he allied with Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar, in attempt to extend Arab influence in the Congo region against Leopold of Belgium's International Association of the Congo; he remained in the Congo until 1886; in Feb. 1887 he signed an agreement making him governor of the district of the Falls, Congo Free State (now Congo [Kinshasa]); in Apr. 1890 he left the Falls for the last time and returned to Zanzibar)
- Historia kwa shule za msingi, 1983:title page (Tipu Tipu) preliminary page (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tipu Tipu, as photo portrait caption) page 4 (Tipu Tipu (Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi); b. 1830 in Zanzibar)
- Mughāmir ʻUmānī fī adghāl Ifrīqiyā, 2005:t.p. (Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʻah al-Murjībī, Tībū Tīb) p. 17, etc. (b. 1840?; d. 1905)
- Wikipedia, July 15, 2016Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib; 1837-June 14, 1905; real name Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, Arabic حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي; Swahili-Zanzibari slave trader; known by people of the African Great Lakes as Tippu Tip after the sounds that his guns made; ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor; he traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations)
- His Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, yaani Tippu Tip, kwa maneno yake mwenyewe, 1966:t.p. (Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, Tippu Tip)
- Renault, F. Tippo Tip, 1987.
- CSmH files(usage: Hamed bin Mohammed, alias, Tippo Tib)
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Tippu Tip, also spelled Tippu Tib or Tippoo 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 half-Arab half-sub-Saharan African Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar, trading 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 best-known slave and ivory trader in Africa, supplying much of the world with ivory from enslaved Africans. While still loyal to the Sultan of Zanzibar, he came to rule a large territory in the eastern Congo, centered on the town of Kasongo in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in his own right.
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