British East Africa , areas that used to be under British Control in East Africa - namely Kenya , Uganda and Zanzibar and Tanganyika (now Tanzania ).
Britannica Quiz Destination Africa:Fact or Fiction? Is Africa's northernmost point further north than Europe's southernmost point? See if your geographical knowledge points north or south on this journey through Africa. British penetration of the area began in Zanzibar in the last quarter of the 19th century. 1888 established the Imperial British East Africa Company territorial claims in contemporary Kenya. In 1890 and 1894 British protectorates were established over the Sultanate of Zanzibar and the Kingdom of Buganda (Uganda), and in 1895 the company's territory in Kenya was declared the East Africa Protectorate (after 1920 the Kenya -Colony and) transferred to the Crown the Kenya Protectorate). After the Treaty of Versailles (signed June 1919; entered into force January 1920) received Great Britain the former German territory of Tanganyika as mandate League of Nations .
All of these areas gained political independence in the 1960s, and Zanzibar merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania in 1964.