Arab slave traders

Swahili slave and ivory trader (c. 1832/7–1905)

Pasha of tripolitania

Slave trader and Sudanese governor

16th-century Arab ruler of Mozambique island

Al Bashir ibn Salim al-Harthi () (c.1840 - 15 December 1889), was a wealthy merchant and slave-owning plantation owner of Omani Arab and Oromo parentage (from his mother's side) who is known for the Abushiri Revolt against the German East Africa Company in present-day Tanzania. He is credited with uniting local Arab traders and African tribes against German colonialism.

Sudanese military commander (1836-1926)

7th century Arab military commander

Muhammad bin Khalfan bin Khamis al-Barwani () (born c. 1850, died 1919), commonly known as Rumaliza, was an Omani Swahili trader of slaves and ivory, active in Central and East Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was a member of the Arabian Barwani tribe. With the help of Tippu Tip, he became the Sultan of Ujiji. At one time, he dominated the trade of Tanganyika, before being defeated by Belgian forces under Baron Francis Dhanis in January 1894.