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Tippu Tip

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Gender Male
Born Zanzibar
Tanzania
Date of died June 14,1905
DiedStone Town
Tanzania
NationalityTanzanian
Children Sefu bin Hamid
Books Tippu Tip
Job Merchant
Explorer
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Date of Upd.
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Tippu Tip Life story


Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib, real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi, was a Swahili–Zanzibari slave trader, ivory trader, explorer, plantation owner and governor. He worked for a succession of the sultans of Zanzibar. Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations.

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