| Anglo-German agreements of 1886 recognized the sultan's authority over the coastal areas and placed the southern coastal strip (now Tanzania) in the German sphere of influence and the northern coastal strip (now Kenya) in the British sphere of influence. Tanganyika, the formerly a German colony, was a territory on the east coast of Central Africa. After the first World War it was under British Mandate untill 1946 and then administraded by Britain under United Natoins trusteeship till 1961 when it became independed within the British Commonwealth. It was renamed Tanzania in 1965. |
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Kenya, a former British Crown colony and Protectorate including British East Africa had common issued stamps from 1903 to 1919. After that time stamps were issued commonly with Uganda.Kenya became internally self-governing on June 1, 1963, and achieved full independence on Dec. 12, 1963.
In 1920 the interior regions were organized as the British crown colony of Kenya while the coastal strip remained a British protectorate nominally ruled by the sultan of Zanzibar.
