Tippu Tib — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Tippu Tip: the most famous late nineteenth-century Arab trader in central and eastern Africa, born 1837, died 14 June 1905 at Zanzibar; he built a state in the eastern Congo basin and accepted the governorship of the Falls district of the Congo Free State in February 1887.

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