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About Donald Mackenzie
Donald Mackenzie was a Scottish abolitionist, writer, and trader who founded the trading post at Tarfaya. In the 1870s, he founded the North-West Africa Trade Company and a Canarian tea trading agency, the latter of which supplied green tea to the Sahrawis. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, he acquired land at Tarfaya and built a trading post there in the form of a sea fort. The trading post saw difficulties during the Sous Expeditions, and Mackenzie was pushed out of the region in 1886. He sold this failing fort in 1895. According to Mackenzie himself, he sold the rights to the fort for £50,000.
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