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Ahmad Simba
Ahmad Simba was a Nabhani prince of Pate who fled the Sultanate of Zanzibar's control and founded the sultanate of Witu on the Kenyan coast in the 1860s. His state took in runaway slaves and farmers. To protect himself from Zanzibar he accepted a German protectorate in 1885, which Germany later handed to Britain in 1890.
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