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English: Sultan Djabir (or Bokoyo, born c. 1855 – 11 January 1918) was ruler of a region on the Uele River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He engaged in the ivory and slave trade with Muslims from the north and with Belgians from the south. Eventually he was forced to flee to the Sudan when he refused to pay tribute to the Congo Free State.
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Source Bas De Roo (2014), “Customs and Contraband in the Congolese M’Bomu Region”, in Journal of Belgian History [1] , volume XLIV, issue 4, page 127
Author F.L. Michel (1855-1932)

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Sultan Djabir in 1894

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