Tippu Tip
Swahili slave and ivory trader (c. 1832/7-1905) · Business Professionals · Lived 1837 to 1905 · aged 68
Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib, real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī, was an Arab Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner.
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Portrait of Tippu Tip, House of Wonders Museum, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
Tippu Tip's state was located in modern-day Congo.
The contract signed between Henry Morton Stanley and Tippu Tip on behalf of King Leopold II at the British consulate in Zanzibar in 1887, in which Leopold appoints Tippu Tip as governor of the Stanley Falls District
House of Tippu Tip in Stone Town, Zanzibar City
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He worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar and was the Sultan of Utetera, a short-lived state in Kasongo, Maniema in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo ruled by himself and his son Sefu.
