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Name |
Issued
stamps |
Bird
stamps |
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1888–1920
German East Africa
→ see under German East Africa |
≈ 80 | |
1890–1895
Imperial British East Africa Company
The Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC) was the administrator of British East Africa, which was the forerunner of the East Africa Protectorate, later Kenya. |
≈ 30 | |
1895–1897
[British] East Africa Protectorate
East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area of East Africa occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya from the Indian Ocean inland to Uganda and the Great Rift Valley. |
≈ 60 | |
1895–1902
Uganda Protectorate
The British Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of Buganda Kingdom to the British Government. |
≈ 70 | |
1895–1963
Sultanate of Zanzibar [British Protectorate]
The Sultanate of Zanzibar (Arabic: سلطنة زنجبار), also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate was a country and protectorate of the United Kingdom that existed on the Zanzibar Archipelago off the coast of East Africa between 1856 and 1964. It also controlled parts of what is now the eastern coast of Tanzania, of which it became a constituent part in 1964 after the unification of Zanzibar and Tanganyika. |
≈ 300 | |
1903–1922
[British] East Africa and Uganda Protectorates
East Africa and Uganda Protectorates was the name used by the combined postal service of the protectorates of British East Africa and Uganda between 1 April 1903 and 22 July 1920 |
≈ 70 | |
1903–1960
British Somaliland Protectorate
British Somaliland (Somali: Dhulka Biritishka ee Soomaaliya, Arabic: الصومال البريطاني Al-Sumal Al-Britaniy) was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia. |
≈ 200 | ≈ 4 |
1915–1916
British Occupation of Mafia Island
Overprinted German postage and fiscal stamps, later overprinted British stamps → see under German East Africa |
≈ 30 | |
1915–1922 British Occupation of Tanganyika area | ≈ 40 | |
1921–1931 Mandated Territory of Tanganyika | ≈ 40 | |
1922–1960
British Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika (KUT)
Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika (KUT) is the name on British postage stamps made for use in the British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika. The stamps were circulated between 1935 and 1963 by the joint postal service of the three colonies, the East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. |
≈ 100 | |
1950–1960
UN Trust Territory of Somalia (under Italian administration)
→ see under Somalia |
≈ 100 | |
1960–today
Somalia
→ see under Somalia |
≈ 1 Thousand | ≈ 49 |
1961–1962
Tanganyika Republic
→ see under Tanganyika |
≈ 20 | |
1962–today
Uganda
→ see under Uganda |
≈ 3 Thousand | ≈ 230 |
1963
Sultanate of Zanzibar
→ see under Zanzibar |
≈ 4 | |
1963–1976
Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika (KUT)
→ see under Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika (KUT) |
≈ 200 | ≈ 19 |
1963–today
Kenya
→ see under Kenya |
≈ 900 | ≈ 25 |
1964
People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba
→ see under Zanzibar |
≈ 50 | |
1964
Tanzania and Zanzibar [United Republic of]
→ see under Tanzania |
≈ 4 | |
1965–1967
Tanganyika-Zanzibar
→ see under Zanzibar |
≈ 40 | |
1965–today
Tanzania [United Republic of]
→ see under Tanzania |
≈ 5 Thousand | ≈ 408 |
This area contains several different British territories of East Africa.
Ron Negus, “Horn of plenty. British Somaliland’s First Issues 1901-04,” Stamp Magazine, November 2007: 44-46.
Brian Cartwright, “The Giraffe Issues of Tanganyika 1922-25,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, September 2009: 71-75.
George T Krieges, “Sultan Seyyid Hamed-bin-Thwain Issues of Zanzibar 1896-1898: Part 1,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, September 2012: 82-86.
George T Krieges, “Sultan Seyyid Hamed-bin-Thwain Issues of Zanzibar 1896-1898: Part 2,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, October 2012: 66-71.
Noel Davenhill, “Visiting the British Empire: Aden and Protectorates and Somaliland Protectorate,“ American Philatelist, December 2013: 1154-1160.
Tom Pierron, “Royal Variety Performance: Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika 1954 5c. Owen Falls Dam inverted vignette. SG 167a,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, September 2015: 77.
Andreas Birken, “Witu und Malakote,“ [In German.] Michel Rundschau, 10/2015: 64-84.
Hugh Jefferies, “Catalogue Column: George VI Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika,” Gibbons Stamp Monthly, May 2016: 102.
Mandated Territory of Tanganyika 1921–1931 |
TANGANYIKA
1922 |
Mandated Territory of Tanganyika 1921–1931 |
MANDATED TERRITORY OF TANGANYIKA
1927- |
Tanganyika Republic 1961–1962 |
TANGANYIKA
1961 |
Tanganyika Republic 1961–1962 |
JAMHURI YA TANGANYIKA
1962 |
Tanzania and Zanzibar [United Republic of] 1964 | UNITED REPUBLIC of TANGANYIKA & ZANIZIBAR |
Tanzania [United Republic of] 1965–today | TANZANIA |