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Also known as Tippu Tib, Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī, Hamed ben Mohemmed ben Juma, Hamed bin Mohammed, Mutschi-Pula

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

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Died
1905
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4

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  • Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi
  • L'autobiographie de Hamed ben Mohammed el-Murjebi Tippo Tip (ca. 1840-1905)
  • Tippu Tip
  • Mughāmir ʻUmānī fī adghāl Ifrīqiyā

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1970-04-10
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Quotes

  • Now I am Tipo Tipo,'that is,'the gatherer together of wealth.
  • Have you not subdued the whole district, and could you not have taken a few hundred strong men as slaves to have carried all your superfluous stock and the small ivory, and put your one hundred guns in charge?

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Key facts

Born
Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi , c. 1832 , Zanzibar , Omani Empire
Died
June 14, 1905 (aged 68), Stone Town , Sultanate of Zanzibar
Other name
Tippu Tib
Occupations
Slave trader, ivory merchant, explorer, governor
Children
Sefu bin Hamid

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Wikidata facts

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date of death
1905-06-14
date of birth
1837-01-01
Commons category
Tippu Tip
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Tippu Tip, or Tippu 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 Arab Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. 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.

Tippu Tip traded 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.

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