# - Alawi, "Prince" Abdullah bin.

Albumen print (167 x 117mm.), inscribed on the reverse "Colonel Abdulla, Prince of Johanna"

Prestholdt, Jeremy, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization, (University of California Press, 2008)

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a very rare photograph of abdullah bin alawi, son of the deposed Sultan of Nzwani Island in the Comoros Archipelago, who had once represented his father as an ambassador to Mauritius. Though in reality no longer a prince, in early 1858 he managed to convince the British Political Resident in Aden and subsequently other administrators around the globe that they should grant him certain privileges and for almost a decade he travelled the world under various assumed names at the expense of the British Government. Alawi went to Karachi, Muscat, Zanzibar, Madras, Sri Lanka, Aden, Madagascar, Cape Town, Paris and in 1863 he finally made it to London and was last heard of in Cairo in 1866.