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), but generally referred to by modern historians as the Coastal Rebellion, was an insurrection in 1888–1889 by the Arab, Swahili and African population of the coast of what is now Tanzania. This coast had been leased, under protest, to Germany by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1888. The rebellion was eventually suppressed by a German expeditionary force commanded by Hermann Wissmann.