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Mzee Ali : The Biography of an African Slave-Raider turned Askari and Scout
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonell, Bror.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kalikilima, Mzee Ali.
- Scouts (Reconnaissance)--Africa, East.
- Slave traders--Africa, East--Biography.
- Soldiers--Africa, East--Biography.
- Tanzania--Description and travel.
- Tanzania--History--1890-1918--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Africa, East.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Africa, East--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Slave traders.
- Scouts (Reconnaissance).
- Soldiers--Africa, East.
- Soldiers.
- Tanzania.
- Local Subjects:
- Kalikilima, Mzee Ali.
- Scouts (Reconnaissance)--Africa, East.
- Slave traders--Africa, East--Biography.
- Soldiers--Africa, East--Biography.
- Tanzania--Description and travel.
- Tanzania--History--1890-1918--Biography.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Africa, East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : 30 Degrees South Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Mzee' is the Swahili word for an 'old timer', a respected elder. Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western Tanzania, probably in the 1870s (there is mention of 'The Doctor'-Dr David Livingstone) to black Muslim parents of noble birth. Aged 14, Mzee Ali led his first slaving safari to the shores of Lake Tanganyika and thence, with his caravan of captured slaves and ivory, through the malaria-, tsetse fly- and lion-infested wilds, to the Arab markets of Dar es Salaam, some 1,200 kilometres away on the Indian Ocean. With the arrival of the German colonizers, Mze
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; A Note from the Publisher; Epigraph; Prologue; Part I; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Part II; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; Part III; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXII; Epilogue; Postscript
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781928211013
- 1928211011
- OCLC:
- 863822745
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