Echoes from the Island of slavery
Jul 12, 2001
During my school days, we learned lots of stuff about the infamous slave trade that infested West Africa and parts of east Africa.
-- Tippu Tip got his name from his cocked rifle. The slaves heard the sound 'Tippu Tip', then dead silence - a man would fall to the ground.... Dead of course
By Harry Sagara in Stone Town, Zanzibar
During my school days, we learned lots of stuff about t