KENYA and UGANDA, AF
(Formerly East Africa and Uganda Protectorates)
A British Colony and Protectorate in East Africa lying north of Tanganyika and bordering on the Indian Ocean. Kenya, a Crown Colony since 1906, includes the former East Africa Protectorate which included a strip of land, ten miles wide, extending along the coast to the northern branch of the Tana River, belonging to and leased from the Sultan of Zanzibar. With the formation of Kenya Colony from the East African Protectorate, this strip of land was proclaimed the Kenya Protectorate and is still leased from the sultan. A section of the northern portion of Kenya, west of the Juba River, was ceded to Italy in 1925. The Area of Kenya Colony is 245,000 square miles (including the territory owned by the Sultan of Zanzibar). The inland Uganda Protectorate, lying west of Kenya Colony, is the former kingdom of Uganda. It was declared a British Protectorate in 1894 and includes the present Kingdom of Uganda. The Protectorate is 94,200 square miles in area. The capital of the colony is Nairobi, and of the Protectorate, Entebbe. The monetary unit is the east African shilling which is divided into one hundred cents. The normal value of the shilling is twenty to the British pound.
From: Scott's Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue
1934 Ninety-fourth Edition
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