British protectorate that became the colony of Kenya.
Transformed into the Colony of Kenya by Order in Council on 23 July 1920, when its inland territories were formally annexed as a British crown colony; the coastal strip remained technically a Zanzibar protectorate leased to Britain until Kenyan independence in 1963.
Covers the British East Africa Protectorate that became Kenya.
Broad modern African history for the wider East African colonial context.