Tippu Tip or Tib (1837 - June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muḥammad bin Jumah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Sa‘īd al-Murgabī, was a Swahili-Zanzibari trader, notorious slaver, plantation owner and governor. Working for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar, he led many trading expeditions into east-central Africa, sometimes involving the slave trade and ivory. He constructed profitable trading posts that reached deep into Central Africa.
"It is said that even the notorious slave-dealer Tippoo Tib paid him deference and suspended his operations whenever Livingstone was in his neighbourhood. (South Africa, A.W Wells, 1939, p112)
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