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The Omanis in ZanzibarDeveloped complex plantation economy, rooted in trade to interior:• Invested in grain plantations on mainland (now Tanzania)• Expanded ivory, slave-trading network to interior• Indian merchants provided credit for goods that moved as far inlandas (today) eastern Congo• New settlements grew up facilitating, servicing, feeding network• ‘Swahili’ traders of mixed cultural descent operated caravans• famous ‘Tippu Tip’ epitomized system at most effective[see last lecture ‘who were these ‘Arabs’?]
Tippu TipExpanded Sultan’s ‘domains’ half-way across the continent takinglanguage, culture and religion with themBut raises key issues:- Tippu Tip: both Omani and ‘African’ancestry; Muslim, real name:Hamed bin Mohammed el Marjebi;served 8 sultans as explorer, guide,soldier, diplomat, judge, governorand slave merchant; 50 years of‘Carrying the flag and [Omani]civilization to its furthest geographicalboundaries’[see ‘Zanzibar Unveiled’ website, Resources]
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Page 3 and 4: The Omanis in Zanzibar• Driven fr
Page 5 and 6: The Omanis in ZanzibarSayyid Said
Page 7 and 8: ‘Omani Sultans’
Page 9: Sultan Bargash and Advisors
Page 13 and 14: Identity in Zanzibar EmpireTippu Ti
Page 15 and 16: Identity in Zanzibar EmpireOmani el
Page 17 and 18: Identity in Zanzibar Empire“The a
Page 19 and 20: Identity in Zanzibar EmpireSets con
Page 21 and 22: Marriage that never was…Groups of
Page 23 and 24: Tabora and the Slave Trade
Page 25 and 26: Marriage that never was…Zuwayna,
Page 27 and 28: Marriage that never was…Old Sulay
Page 29 and 30: Rashid bin HassaniStory of Rashid b
Page 31 and 32: Sultan’s SisterThis is NOT Bibi Z
Page 33 and 34: Rashid bin HassaniMet Swahili porte
Page 35 and 36: Askari with Convicts (Zanzibar)
Page 37 and 38: Rashid bin HassaniFrom Rashid’s S
Page 39 and 40: Swahili Identity/iesc. 1890
Page 41: ‘Swahili’ Identity/ies‘IvoryM

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