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  1. Sidi Mubarak Bombay (c. 1820–1885), Mbarak Mombée , [1] was a waYao explorer and guide, who participated in numerous expeditions by 19th century British explorers to East Africa. [2] [3] A waYao (subgroup of the Bantu peoples), he was born in 1820 on the border of Tanzania and Mozambique.

  2. Dec 14, 2022 · December 14, 2022 contributed by: Robert Fikes. Sidi Mubarak Bombay with Henry Morton Stanley, 1871 (www.amazon.com) Sidi Mubarak Bombay, one of the most extensive travelers in sub-Saharan Africa in the 19th century, was honored for his assistance to British explorers and adventurers.

  3. Jun 15, 2022 · There's one other figure we should bring into the story here, a guy named Sidi Mubarak Bombay. Tell us about him. He's known as Bombay in the story. MILLARD: Yes. Bombay was a formerly...

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  5. Amazing lives. Sidi Mubarak Bombay Unsung African adventurer. Stolen from his village as a boy, enslaved and trafficked to a distant land, the intrepid and big-hearted Sidi Mubarak Bombay returned to travel across his home continent on pioneering expeditions. CANDICE MILLARD introduces a little-known but exceptional explorer.

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  6. May 14, 2022 · SIMON: And Sidi Mubarak Bombay - he was kidnapped from his village in East Africa, sold for cloth... MILLARD: Yes. SIMON: ...Into slavery in western India, and then he made his way back to...

  7. Sidi Mubarak Bombay. 1820?-1885? African guide who accompanied John Hanning Speke, Richard Francis Burton, and Henry Morton Stanley on several expeditions throughout Africa. Bombay, a resilient man who survived disease and constant battle during his journeys through Africa, traveled with Speke and Burton to discover the source of the Nile River ...

  8. Jan 28, 2020 · After several months of acrimonious travel, they discovered Lake Tanganyika, though reportedly it was their headman, a formerly enslaved person known as Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who first spotted the lake (Bombay was essential to the success of the trip in many ways and went on to manage several European expeditions, becoming one of the many career ...

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