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The tribal lands of the Luba of Mulongo, situated at the extreme north of the Upemba depression are not only an almost obligatory point of passage for those coming from the east en route to the heart of the Luba but are also an important market. It is therefore a very useful place to study the Arab-Swahili penetration in the kingdom of Luba in the nineteenth century, especially as one of the first merchants to reach this chefferie was none other than Tippo Tip. In his autobiography, he briefly speaks of his incursions in Luba but up to now, no other source has permitted the verification or the completion of the information provided by Tippo Tip.An unpublished administrative report dating from 1909, written up from the oral tradition of the precedent century, tells of power struggles between two rival lineages of the Mulongo royalty. The report not only provides a complete ancestry of the chiefs but also allows the accurate dating of the stages of Arab-Swahili penetration in the kingdom of Luba. Furthermore, this document refers to the passage of Tippo Tip in the region and gives us much information regarding the events that took place during his stay. The congruence of the sources enables a relatively detailed chronology of the passage of Tippo Tip to be established and a better definition of the forms of the penetration and the political domination of Arab-Swahili at the heart of the Luba empire.
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Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. This biography transports the reader into his extraordinary world, describing its exotic cast of characters and the principal factors that shaped it. 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. This book is the first thorough investigation in English of this significant figure. The lucid narrative unfolds against the political and economic backdrop of European and American commercial aims, while allowing the reader to see the period through African and Arab eyes. The fascinating figures who strutted the 19th-century African stage, and their hardly believable exploits, give this book an appeal reaching beyond the African specialist to the general reader
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Ḥāmid b. Muḥammad al-Murd̲j̲ibī, alias Tippu Tip, naquit à Zanzibar vers 1837 d’ascendance afroarabe. Son arrière-grand-père, Rad̲j̲ab b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Murd̲j̲ibī, originaire de Masḳaṭ [q.v.], s’était lui-même établi sur la côte opposée, à Zanzibar, où il avait épousé une femme afro-arabe, fille d’un membre du célèbre clan Nabhānī, Ḏj̲umaʿ b. Muḥammad al-Nabhānī.
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Dr. Roberts has been working on the oral history of the Bemba of Zambia. He is now Research Fellow in Oral History at the University College, Dar es Salaam. In this paper he examines crucial points bearing on the chronology of Zambian history, and puts in a plea for a similar re-examination of other supposed exact dates which are in circulation; a plea which we also would heartily support in respect of the early history of the coast as well as that of the interior.
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