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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of British East Africa . Britain had interests in this area as early as 1824. Missionaries are known to have settled in the area in 1844. The Imperial British East Africa Company obtained a concession in 1887 to administer this area, from Sultan Bargash of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade or Arab slave trade, was multi-directional slave trade and has changed over time. Captured in raids primarily south of the Sahara, predominately black Africans were traded as slaves to the Middle East, Indian Ocean islands (including Madagascar ), Indian subcontinent ...
Adopted. 2008 [1] Design. A blue background with a thin yellow stripe fimbrated in green, overtop two thin stripes of black and red, fimbriated in white. In the center of the stripes is the emblem of the EAC. The flag of the East African Community is the flag used since 2008 by the East African Community, an intergovernmental organization ...
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. The British Middle East Command with troops from the United Kingdom, South ...
From 2003, a historical event (East African Safari Rally) has been held biennially. History [ edit ] It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya , Uganda and Tanganyika , [1] as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II .
The East African Revival (Luganda: Okulokoka) was a movement of renewal in the Christian Church in East Africa during the late 1920s and 1930s. It began on a hill called Gahini in then Belgian Ruanda-Urundi in 1929, and spread to the eastern mountains of Belgian Congo, Uganda Protectorate (British Uganda), Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony during the 1930s and 1940s.
The Foundation of British East Africa (London: H. Marshall, 1901) online. Aim25.ac.uk: Sir William Mackinnon Archived 8 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine; Savage, Donald C., and J. Forbes Munro. "Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918." Journal of African History 7.2 (1966): 313–342. Whitehead, Clive.
East Timor. / -8.55; 125.56. East Timor, [a] also known as Timor-Leste, [b] officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor - of which the western half is administered by Indonesia - the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor ...