The Fall of the Congo Arabs
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: October 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781402194740
Subjects: Africa,history,Zaire,Congo,Maniema,Arabs,slaves,slave-trade,Tippu Tip; History / Africa; History / Egypt
First sentence: WITHIN the limits of the Congo Free State, as arranged by the Berlin Congress, was a great district often marked Kasongo or Manyema in the map of Africa, over which the Government of the Congo Free State had no control, except through Tippu Tib, Raschid, and one or two other Arabs, who were appointed officials in their own country by the Congo Free State Government.