British East Africa
It gave Germany and Great Britain possession of two huge territories that shared a long border on the eastern side of the continent. The demarcation line ran from the Indian Ocean coast to Lake Victoria; and it divided lands to be henceforth known as Deutsch-Ostafrika (German East Africa) and British East Africa.
Deutsch-Ostafrika’s settlers and administrators knuckled down to organizing their new colony, opening a postal network from 1893 and selling suitably overprinted stamps to customers eager to correspond with the Fatherland. By 1900 they could use issues of Germany’s attractive key type Colonial stamps depicting the Imperial yacht , and neatly engraved with the colony’s name.
