If you want to know more about history, and take a picture in the door of the house of slave trader, you can come here. Is just a door and you can’t get inside because is closed for tourists.

Simple: it is not there. Or at least not accessible. And VERY difficult to find, no signage whatsoever and even locals are not aware. But, it is closed...

It is closed at the moment :( like most museums in town.

All the glory and wealth has vanished very fast as the loot was rich for this landlord and the misery for innocent people for being born in Africa is a sad reminder of reality. They have completely erased the previous cultural identity of Africans.

My mother used to live here. Yes, it’s under renovation, but when the refurbishment is complete it will be lovely to come back and visit.

Historical building in Zanzibar town, now closed.

This house was owned by a famous slave trader. One of historical places in Zanzibar. The place is under construction.

Tippu Tip built himself a trading empire that he then translated into clove plantations on Zanzibar. Abdul Sheriff reported that when he left for his twelve years of empire building on the mainland, he had no plantations of his own. By 1895, he had acquired seven shambas [plantations] and 10,000 slaves.[6]He met and helped several famous western explorers of the African continent, including David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.[7]:Vol. Two,91–97 Between 1884 and 1887 he claimed the Eastern Congo for himself and for the Sultan of Zanzibar, Bargash bin Said el Busaidi. In spite of his position as protector of Zanzibars interests in Congo, he managed to maintain good relations with the Europeans. When, in August 1886, fighting broke out between the Swahili and the representatives of King Leopold II of Belgium at Stanley Falls, al-Murjabī went to the Belgian consul at Zanzibar to assure him of his good intentions. Although he was still a force in Central African politics, he could see by 1886 that power in the region was shifting.Courtesy of Wikipedia.Local people purposely use the plot next to his house as a dump.

Cool old house currently under reconstruction, his grave site is just around the corner. Easy to miss.

Sadly just an old building that’s falling apart. As others have said, there’s a small placard in front explaining who he was.

Its just another old building except this one has a board in front of it explaining who Tippu Tippu was.

Closed under renovation...even locals are not aware of its location

The old building is under the maintains close. Nothing more.

Close

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Are very interesting

Study the history of this house first. Its hard to find without photos. The locals do not like this place, like everything related to slavery. Now under restoration, next to the trash. You can identify it by the plate.Tippu Tib, or Tib (1837 - June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Jamah bin Rajab bin Muhammad bin Said al-Mughrabi. A Zanzibar-Swahili trader and businessman of mixed descent, best known by the nickname Tippu Tib, which he received as a result of an eye disease that made him blind. A notorious slave trader, plantation owner and governor who served the sultans of Zanzibar, he organized many trade expeditions to Central and East Africa in order to obtain slaves and ivory. Tib created his own trading empire, and then took up the cultivation of carnations in Zanzibar. Tippu Tib met and helped many European explorers of Africa, including G.M. Stanley (scouting the area during the expedition to find David Livingstone) and Levingston, whom he once helped with provisions when Livingston due to circumstances lost a significant part of the expeditions luggage. He witnessed the historic meeting of Livingstone and Stanley. On February 24, 1887 he became governor. After his death, the house was a private, and then an apartment building.

The house of one of the richest slaveholders. He was African but had over 10,000 slaves. Communicated with Europeans and controlled a large territory. Located at a restaurant.

Its a shame that this building has come down like that. It is one of the most important buildings that could document the wealth of the traders who traded in ivory, spices and slaves.

This building is as shabby as the whole cityEverything dirty, dilapidated and decayed.There is no reason for me to visit Stone Town, let alone stay here.

The Tipu Tibb House is the home of one of the well-known Arab merchants in Zanzibar Hamid bin Muhammad al-Marjabi, nicknamed The Tipu Tibb, the Arab who opened the countries of the Congo

Under renovation damage

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