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by Martin Grieve, 10 Oct 2002
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Prior to World War 1
There are two quite different "East Africas" that must be distinguished.
Prior to World War 1, Kenya (and Kenya alone) was known officially as British
East Africa, just as Tanganyika was officially known as German
East Africa in the same period. Subsequently, the term "East Africa"
was loosely applied to Kenya, Tanganyika
and Uganda collectively because they shared a number of institutions -
a common currency (the East African shilling), airline (East African Airways),
etc. After independence, the three countries were grouped in an East
African Economic Community, administered by an East African Commission
for a time. This co-operation collapsed in the 1970's, but was revived
in the late 1990's.
Vincent Morley, 8 Feb 2000
British East Africa, which later became the Kenya Colony - the interior
of Kenya - was originally colonised by a Chartered Company, the British
East Africa Company. I suspect the flag you have there is the Company's,
which would be anachronistic as the territory was transferred to the Crown
in 1906 (according to my Notebook of Commonwealth History). Certainly
by independence the colonial flag was the standard Blue Ensign with a badge
of the red lion rampant on a white disc.
Roy Stilling, 14 Feb 1996
This flag was used only in Kenya (prior to the adoption of the name
Kenya),
not in German East Africa or the Uganda
Protectorate. At the time Kenya was called British East Africa, it
incorporated a large slice of what is now Uganda, as well as Jubaland.
The common British administration of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika (later
Tanzania) was never formally called "British East Africa", although it
was described as being "East Africa".
Mike Oettle, 14 Oct 2002
East Africa Union Jack
The Imperial British East Africa Company, founded by the Scottish ship-owner
Sir William Mackinnon in 1887, was granted a Royal Charter in 1888.
Land between Mombassa on the coast and Lake Victoria was leased from the
Sultan of Zanzibar. The aim of the company seems to have been partly