Tippu Tip : ivory, slavery and discovery in the scramble for Africa /

Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. This biography transports the reader into his extraordinary world, describing its exotic cast of characters and the principal factors that sha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Laing, Stuart
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Surbiton, Surrey, UK : Medina Publishing, 2017.
Subjects:	Tippu Tip, > 1837-1905. Merchants > Tanzania > Zanzibar > 19th century. Plantation owners > Tanzania > Zanzibar > 19th century. Slaveholders > Tanzania > Zanzibar > 19th century. Slave traders > Tanzania > Zanzibar > 19th century. Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 19th century. Zanzibar > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Foreword and acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A young Arab in Est Africa
2. Nile-seekers, Africa-crossers
3. Boy trader
4. Business start-up
5. The far side of the lake
6. Between the two rivers
7. Down the Lualaba: Nile or Congo?
8. Tippu Tip and the scramble
9. Fourth journey: back to the centre
10. Fifth journey: what a relief!
11. The British and the Germans: protection or occupation?
12. Arabs versus the Congo Free State
13. Last judgments.
Appendices (1: Tippu Tip's family tree ; 2: British Residents, agents and consuls in Muscat and Zanzibar ; 3: Sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar ; 4: Timeline)