Rabih’s head a battlefield trophy after the fighting on 22 April 1900
Rabih az-Zubayr (1842-1900)
He was a Sudanese warlord and slave trader who established a powerful empire east of Lake Chad, in today’s Chad. He worked as the right-hand man of the Sudanese slaveholder Sebehr Rahma. He conquered empires and was killed by the French after he slaughtered their emissaries.
