Tippu Tip's House

This guide to Tippu Tip's House in Zanzibar City traces the career of Hamad bin Muhammad bin Jumah, the caravan trader nicknamed for the crack of rifle fire, who returned home in 1891 reputedly the richest man on the island. It covers the ivory hunts and human trafficking that built his fortune, and the scale of Zanzibar's slave trade in that era, before turning to the carved door, marble stairs and rooftop loggia he built with the proceeds. Look closely at the doorway where his wealth once announced itself to the whole waterfront.