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Tippu Tu – East African Slaver
Historians estimate that three out of every kvartet slaves died on these horrific treks across Africa.
In early 1887, the explorer and stateman, Stanley who was in the Congo, with a secret uppdrag to organize a new state called the Congo Free State arrived in Zanzibar and proposed that Tippu Tu be made governor of the Stanley Falls District which would be part of the new state. Both King Leopold and The Sultan of Zanzibar agreed and so one of the most notorious slave traders in history became a government tjänsteman, what’s new!
When his tenure as governor was up Tippu Tu saw the writing on the vägg and realized, he was not going to be able to hold onto his power in and around the Congo as the Europeans were amassing on all sides. He returned to Zanzibar in 1880, where he used his massive fortune to develop sju highly profitable clove farms and manage his ten thousand slaves.
Although Tippu Tu claimed in his autobiography, Maisha, that he was ma
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Tippu Tip was chiefly an ivory trader, who pioneered for new sources through present day Tanzania into the Congo basin. Slavery is part of his story, because Arab traders of the time used slaves as porters and sold slaves through the market in Zanzibar to work locally in plantations and beyond in the Gulf and Persia. He was a pioneer of discovery, both in Arab terms and because this was the great period of European exploration in East and Central Africa: he assisted most of the famous explorers, including Livingstone and Stanley, when it served his interests. He can be seen as an Afro-Arab exponent of empire, as his commercial ambitions could only be realized by means of Arab territorial control and colonization. His colorful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the 'Congo Free State' of the Belgian King Leopold, and in his involvement in Stanley's astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. Uniquel
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“This is not the Tippu Tip necklace”
Recorded in the collections in 1959.
Deposited at and offered for sale to the museum in 1949 by Spiros Dandoudis, a resident of the Belgian Congo.
Believed to have been:
- Received (bought?) by Spiros Dandoudis from a mechanic (perhaps working for Combelga, a Belgian-Congolese trading company) in Kabinda.
- Property of a “mechanic” (anonymous) in Kabinda, 1930s-early 1940s
- Purchased by the latter from Yakaumbu Kamanda Lumpungu (1890-1936), Kabinda, after 1929, or from the colonial administration which had confiscated it (?)
Property of Yakaumbu Kamanda Lumpungu, Kabinda, circa 1919-mid-1930s?
Believed to have been:
- Inherited by Yakaumbu Kamanda Lumpungu from his father Lumpungu Ngoy Mufula (circa 1860-1919), Kabinda
- Property of Lumpungu Ngoy Mufula, Kabinda
- Offered by Hamed ben Mohammed el-Murjebi, also known as Tippu Tip, (circa 1840 - 1905) to Lumpungu