East Africa's most notorious slaver, Tippu Tip hated being told he looked more African than Arab. He believed Africans were sub human and he duly overcompensated.
An 1887 report in The Times described him as contemptuous of Black Africans and said he referred to white men as his “European brothers.”
Tip was actually a product of the Arab slave trade, as he a mixed Arab person in Zanzibar. Both his paternal and maternal grandmother's were enslaved African women from the interior who had been used as sex slaves.
He was born in Zanzibar as Hamad ibn Muhammad. Some say he earned the nickname Tippu Tip, because that’s how the guns that he used sounded, while others
believe it’s because of the prominent, involuntary nervous twitch in his eyes.
While he was born at the peak of the the East African slave trade run by Omani Arabs, he took slave raiding and trading to a whole new level. He led caravans all the way to what is now DRC because by the 1860s, the Tanzanian coast was already depleted of people to enslave.
One of his methods would be to burn down entire villages then kidnap women and children and use the captives to make the men lose the will to fight.
He was a crafty man. When the European colonialist came, he adapted. In 1887, through Henry Morton Stanley, Tippu Tip became governor of the Stanley Falls district in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State. A major slave trader was given an official position in a colonial administration that claimed to oppose slavery.
So when the British abolished slavery in their territories, he went on to supply King Leopold of Belgium with 'labour' for his mines and plantations.
Tip knew the interior if Africa so well, He apparently helped European explorers like David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley to map out the interior of Africa. This was consequential during the Scramble for Africa, because then they had a map of Africa to use during the divison
I almost always don't agree with KK but I think many people didn't understand him here. Simply put I think he meant..since we have no control over the supply at such a time, those with 4 cars can use one to leave more fuel in supply for others
80% of new HIV infections are among young women? How can 80% girls be infected by 20% men?
Young girls are now the dominant HIV carriers?? 😳😳😳😳
Do we need to shout this on top of the mountains? Can government ban house parties where young girls drug themselves silly and engage in risky group sexual behaviors? 😳😳🙆🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️
Jessica Cook is an award winning Artist - here she is in Brooklyn, JYC, presenting her latest piece of ‘Art’.
Yes just like everything else - the World of Art is being decimated too.
If Pirates FC wants us to fundraise for them to arrest whoever was involved in beating up the late Sydney , this is an open invitation and am on the front line 💔🕊️😩. My eyes get watery all the time
Dear @PoliceUg how many more people should we lose to mob justice before you take real action?
A young player, a patriot to the core, represented this nation at the highest level died in the hands of boda Bodas who will go unpunished.
No justice for him and family?? Come on!!
You mocked her.
You cancelled her.
You dehumanized her.
You gaslighted her (and her supporters)
You told her she needed to work harder. You said she was competing against a better woman…
But she was—in fact—fighting a man.
Will any of you apologize?