Tippu Tip
Sign in to saveAlso 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)
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sultanate of Zanzibar
- Place of birth
- Zanzibar Islands
- Place of death
- Zanzibar City
- Child
- Sefu bin Hamid
- Image
- Tipoo tib NNP.jpg
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- date of death
- 1905-06-14
- date of birth
- 1837-01-01
- Commons category
- Tippu Tip
- manner of death
- natural causes
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tippu Tip” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.