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Tippu
Tip
built
himself
a
trading
empire
that
he
then
translated
into
clove
plantations
on
Zanzibar.
Abdul
Sheriff
reported
that
when
he
left
for
his
twelve
years
of
"empire
building"
on
the
mainland,
he
had
no
plantations
of
his
own.
By
1895,
he
had
acquired
"seven
'shambas'
[plantations]
and
10,000
slaves".[6]
He
met
and
helped
several
famous
western
explorers
of
the
African
continent,
including
David
Livingstone
and
Henry
Morton
Stanley.[7]:Vol.
Two,91ā97
Between
1884
and
1887
he
claimed
the
Eastern
Congo
for
himself
and
for
the
Sultan
of
Zanzibar,
Bargash
bin
Said
el
Busaidi.
In
spite
of
his
position
as
protector
of
Zanzibar's
interests
in
Congo,
he
managed
to
maintain
good
relations
with
the
Europeans.
When,
in
August
1886,
fighting
broke
out
between
the
Swahili
and
the
representatives
of
King
Leopold
II
of
Belgium
at
Stanley
Falls,
al-Murjabī
went
to
the
Belgian
consul
at
Zanzibar
to
assure
him
of
his
"good
intentions".
Although
he
was
still
a
force
in
Central
African
politics,
he
could
see
by
1886
that
power
in
the
region
was
shifting.
Courtesy
of
Wikipedia.
Local
people
purposely
use
the
plot
next
to
his
house
as
a
dump.
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