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    Tippu Tip, a 19th century Swahili trader, wrote an autobiography about his life after retiring in Zanzibar in 1890/91, making it the first autobiography in the Bantu Swahili language. Dr. Heinrich Brode transcribed and translated Tippu Tip's manuscript into German. It was later translated into English and published in 1907. Tippu Tip died in 1905 in Stone Town, Zanzibar from malaria.

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    Tippu Tip, a 19th century Swahili trader, wrote an autobiography about his life after retiring in Zanzibar in 1890/91, making it the first autobiography in the Bantu Swahili language. Dr. Heinrich Brode transcribed and translated Tippu Tip's manuscript into German. It was later translated into English and published in 1907. Tippu Tip died in 1905 in Stone Town, Zanzibar from malaria.

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    Tippu Tip, a 19th century Swahili trader, wrote an autobiography about his life after retiring in Zanzibar in 1890/91, making it the first autobiography in the Bantu Swahili language. Dr. Heinrich Brode transcribed and translated Tippu Tip's manuscript into German. It was later translated into English and published in 1907. Tippu Tip died in 1905 in Stone Town, Zanzibar from malaria.

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    After returning to Zanzibar around 1890/91, Tippu Tip retired.

    He set out to write an account of


    his life, which is the first example of the literary genre of autobiography in the Bantu Swahili
    language. Dr. Heinrich Brode, who knew him in Zanzibar, transcribed the manuscript into Roman
    script and translated it into German. It was subsequently translated into English and published in
    Britain in 1907[8].
    Tippu Tip died June 13, 1905, of malaria (according to Brode) in his home in Stone Town, the
    main town on the island of Zanziba

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