Book Review - JUST OVER A CENTURY AGO, ON JUNE 13, 1905, a dark-skinned Muslim man named Tippu Tip, then aged nearly 70, died in Zanzibar. Of mixed Arabic and African descent, this man had over ...

The most famous trader of all was Tippu Tip, (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson of an African slave. He was born in ...