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The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until 1963. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British Crown colony in 1920.
End of British mandate Palestine declared independence from Israel on 15 November 1988. Jamaica: 6 August: 1962: Independence Day (6 August) Jordan: Transjordan: 25 May: 1946: Now an independent monarchy outside the Commonwealth. Kenya: 12 December: 1963: Dominion of Kenya declared in 1963. Republic declared exactly 1 year later. Kiribati
Kenya became a military base for the British in the First World War (1914–1918), [63] as efforts to subdue the German colony to the south were frustrated. At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the governors of British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and German East Africa agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young ...
Earlier on Tuesday, the monarch visited the Uhuru Gardens, where Kenya declared its independence in 1963. He laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. ... A decade ago, the British ...
Though declared a colony in 1920, the formal British colonial presence in Kenya began with a proclamation on 1 July 1895, in which Kenya was claimed as a British protectorate. [30] Even before 1895, however, Britain's presence in Kenya was marked by dispossession and violence.
East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west.
It was a predecessor to the Republic of Kenya. When British Kenya became independent on 12 December 1963, Elizabeth II remained head of state as Queen of Kenya (and of the United Kingdom and many former colonies). The monarch's constitutional roles were mostly delegated to the Governor-General of Kenya, Malcolm John Macdonald. [2]
Kenya's 1963 Constitution, also called the Independence Constitution, was based on the standard "Lancaster House template" used for the former British colonies in Africa, was subject to early amendments, and was replaced in 1969.