Listen to historian Abdul Sheriff introducing Tippu Tip's autobiography, followed by a BBC dramatisation of the slave trader's own writing ...
Description of a battle with warriors of the African Sultan of Mkahuja. From The Life of Tippu Tip. Two thirds of all slaves captured in the 18th century went to work on sugar plantations.
Other rulers took advantage of trade with Europeans to become rich and powerful, for example, Jaja of Opoba, the palm oil trader in the Niger Delta, and the Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip.
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