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To: ilovesarah2012

British East Africa Protectorate, or something like that.


27 posted on 05/20/2011 3:27:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The Kenya Colony.

European and Arab presence in Mombasa dates to the Early Modern period, but European exploration of the interior began only in the 19th century. The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, from 1920 known as the Kenya Colony.

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-was-kenya-called-before-1964

They could have just called it Kenya I suppose.


29 posted on 05/20/2011 3:53:07 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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