Abushiri revolt

Abushiri revolt
	Part of the Scramble for Africa
	; A German company of Sudanese askaris on the march during the Abushiri Revolt (by Rudolf Hellgrewe, 1891)
Date	1888–89
Location	German East Africa ; (modern-day Tanzania)
Result	German victory Rebellion suppressed; German government takes control of Tanganyika from German East Africa Company;
Belligerents
Germany German East Africa Company;	Arab and Swahili Rebels
Commanders and leaders
Hermann Wissmann ; Emil von Zelewski	Abushiri ibn Salim al-Harthi

The Abushiri revolt, also known as the slave trader revolt (German: Sklavenhändlerrevolte), was an insurrection in 1888–1889 by the Arab and Swahili population of the areas of the coast of East Africa that were granted, under protest, to Germany by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1888. It was eventually suppressed by a German expeditionary corps which conquered the coastal area.

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