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Zanzibar 1849: The French Consul Who Tried to Buy Pemba Island

Zanzibar 1849: The French Consul Who Tried to Buy Pemba Island

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In 1849, France sent a consul to Zanzibar with a bold plan: buy the island of Pemba from Sultan Said bin Busaid for 40,000 Maria Theresa thalers. This episode traces the failed negotiation through the eyes of the French envoy M. Ladislas Cochet, the Sultan's shrewd resistance, and the shadow of British diplomat Atkins Hamerton. We explore the clove wealth of Pemba, the strategic stakes in the Indian Ocean, and how the Busaid Sultanate played European powers against each other. Along the way, we meet Khoja merchant Jairam Sewji, whose financial networks underpinned the Sultan's independence, and we glimpse Stone Town's cosmopolitan politics. No prior episode has focused on this nearly forgotten diplomatic episode that reveals Zanzibar's fragile sovereignty in the age of empire. #Zanzibar #PembaIsland #FrenchConsul #SaidBinBusaid #LadislasCochet #AtkinsHamerton #JairamSewji #BusaidSultanate #CloveTrade #MariaTheresaThaler #StoneTown #IndianOcean #Diplomacy #19thCentury #ColonialHistory #History #FexingoHistory #AfricanHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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