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Tippu Tib or '''Tip''' ( 1837 - June 14 , 1905 ), real name '''Hamed bin Mohammed el Marjebi''', was a Swahili - Zanzibar i trader, plantation owner and governor. Working for a succession of Sultans Of Zanzibar , he led many trading expeditions into east-central Africa, sometimes involving Slave Trade . Tippu Tib met and helped several famous western explorers of the African continent, including Henry Morton Stanley . Between 1884 and 1887 Tib claimed the Eastern Congo. In 1887, he was named governor of Stanley Falls District in the Congo Free State . He died in 1905 in his home in Stone Town , the main town on the island of Zanzibar. |
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