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VIDEOS OF ABUSHIRI REVOLT
It was
led by the planter Abushiri
ibn Salim al-Harthi, who gained the support by both the Arabs of the
area and local Swahili tribes. Abushiri's father was an ethnic Arab and his
mother an Oromo. The rebellion soon spread
all along the coast from the town of Tanga in the north to Lindi and Mikindani in the south. The
representatives of the German East Africa Company were expelled or killed
except for the establishments in Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam.
In
February 1889, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck intervened and
appointed Lieutenant Hermann Wissmann a Reichskommissar of German East
Africa. Wissmann concentrated a Schutztruppe of German officers
and native Askari soldiers, who, with support by
the Marine and the Royal Navy,
subsequently suppressed the revolt.
Abushiri, on his flight to Mombasa, was finally
betrayed to the Germans in December 1889 and was sentenced to death by a
court-martial and publicly hanged in Pangani. By an agreement of 20 November
1890, the East Africa Company had to hand over Tanganyika's administration to
the German government. It was, however, not until early 1891 that Wissmann was
able report to Berlin that the rebellion had been fully suppressed.
Videos of Abushiri Revolt
Video 1
Video 2
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