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Description and Holding Information
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1961, Commissioner's Report on Kenya Coastal Strip
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Colonial Office; The Kenya Coastal Strip; Report of the Commissioner: James W. Roberston, Commissioner, 51p, Cmnd. 1585, London, HMSO, Dec. 1961. (The Kenya Coastal Strip, legally termed “the Kenya Protectorate,” was a strip of land extending about ten miles inland along the whole coast of East Africa from Tanganyika to Kipini, also including the islands of the Lamu Archipelago. Before the advent of the British in Kenya, these lands had been under the nominal jurisdiction of the Sultan of Zanzibar; being the base for Zanzibar’s lucrative slave trading on the African mainland. In 1895 the Sultan ceded the right of administration over this strip to the British, and when, in 1920, the East African Protectorate of Kenya was erected into a Crown Colony, in deference to the residual sovereignty of its close ally the Sultan, the British continued the fiction that the coastal strip remained a protectorate. When Kenyan independence began to loom on the horizon, it became necessary for the British to negotiate the ultimate inclusion of the coastal strip into the territory of an independent Kenya.)
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Title:
The Kenya coastal strip : report of the Commissioner [Sir James W. Robertson, appointed jointly by the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Secretary of the State for the Colonies] / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Colonies by command of Her Majesty, December, 1961.
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OCLC Number:
655101212
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Available Volumes
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Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
Volume 1 | | Yes | No |
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