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  2. Tippu Tip - Wikipedia

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    Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar's clove plantations. As part of the large and lucrative trade, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa , constructing profitable trading posts deep into the Congo Basin region and thus becoming the best-known slave trader in Africa, supplying much of the world with enslaved Africans.

  3. Tippu Tip's state - Wikipedia

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    The Sultanate of Utetera [1] (1860–1887), [2] also referred as Tippu Tip's state, [3] was one of the Arab sultanates established in eastern Africa. It was a 19th century short-lived state ruled by the infamous Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip (Hamad al Murjebi) and his son Sefu. The capital of the state was the town of Kasongo, located in ...

  4. History of Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    He established a ruling Arab elite and encouraged the development of clove plantations, using the island's slave labour. Zanzibar's commerce fell increasingly into the hands of traders from the Indian subcontinent, whom Said encouraged to settle on the island. After his death in 1856, his sons struggled over the succession.

  5. Abir Congo Company - Wikipedia

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    47,000 (1906) The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The company was founded with British and Belgian capital and was based in Belgium.

  6. Portal:Tanzania/Featured biography/2 - Wikipedia

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  7. Tippu Tip's House - Wikipedia

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    Tippu Tip's House. / -6.1640; 39.1870. Tippu Tip's House is a historical building in Stone Town, Zanzibar, located in Suicide Alley [1] in the Shangani ward [2] near the Africa House Hotel and Serena Inn, about 15–25 minute walking time from the Old Fort and Forodhani Gardens. It is the house where the powerful merchant and slave trader Tippu ...

  8. Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .klk .com .my. Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad ( KLK) ( MYX: 2445) is a Malaysian multi-national company. The core business of the group is plantation (oil palm and rubber). The company has plantations that cover more than 250,000 hectares [3] in Malaysia (both Peninsular and Sabah) and Indonesia ( Belitung, Sumatra and Kalimantan ).

  9. The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority ( Malay: Pihak Berkuasa Kemajuan Pekebun Kecil Perusahaan Getah ), abbreviated RISDA, is a Malaysian federal government agency under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development. [1] [2] Established in 1973, [3] it entrusted to oversee the smallholder sector as an important production ...