The result is a vulnerable, contradictory, and potentially dangerous area called British East Africa. In this flat land, this land of great mountains, of wild beasts, of desert and forest ...

The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, British East Africa. A Swahili couple, Nairobi. Two Kikuyu women pounding meali meal in the hollowed-out log of a tree, Nairobi. A dead lion, pierced by many spears; a ...

British forces evacuated to British held Aden (now Yemen) across the Persian Gulf. Italian East Africa bordered both British-held Kenya and the Sudan, which was jointly controlled by Britain and ...

Comprising nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania, the region has been a fulcrum for U.S. efforts to secure trade routes, stymie transnational threats, and project soft power. The ...

Hundreds of British teenagers are being sent by their parents to East Africa to avoid knife crime in the UK, representatives of the Somali community say. Why are they taking this drastic choice?

At a discouraging time during the Second World War, writes Geoffrey Evans, British and Indian troops gained a spectacular victory over the Italian forces in East Africa. For mixed motives, writes C.E.