Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa by Laing, Stuart

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent...
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Author: Stuart Laing
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Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa by Laing, Stuart

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

€40,58

Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa

€40,58
Author: Stuart Laing
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Stuart Laing
Publisher: Medina Publishing
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781911487050

About the Author
Laing, Stuart: - "Stuart Laing had his first career in the British diplomatic service, specializing in Arab affairs. After working in Saudi Arabia (twice) and Egypt, he was Ambassador in Oman and then in Kuwait. Since 2008 he has been Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where - in between his duties to the College and the University - he has researched and written on British-Omani history, and the abolition of slavery in East Africa and the Indian Ocean."

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