Congo Arab war
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The Congo Arab war was a colonial war between the Congo Free State and Arab-Swahili warlords associated with the Indian Ocean slave trade in the eastern regions of the Congo Basin between 1892 and 189
A photograph of an enslaved child in Zanzibar c. 1890
Arab East African slave routes c. 1890
Francis Dhanis in the Congo. His better-armed forces defeated Rumaliza, c. 1900
Display of artifacts from the Congo Arab war
Tippu Tip
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Tippu Tip, also spelled Tippu Tib or Tippoo 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, gove
Congo Arab war
…against his once-allies. The war against the Swahili-Arab economic and political power was presented as a Christian anti-slavery crusade. In 1886, while Tippu Tip was in Zanzibar, a dispute arose between Tippu Tip's fort at Stanley Falls (modern-day Boyoma Falls) and a smaller, nearby Congo Free State fort led…
The famous Slave trader, Hamad Bin Muhammad Bin Rajab Al-Murjabi, more commonly known by his nickname, Tippu Tip / Tippu Tib
Portrait of Tippu Tip, House of Wonders Museum, Stone Town, Zanzibar.
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