Postage stamps and postal history of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika

[1] Even after independence, the new separate nations continued to use the KUT stamps, and they remained valid for postage until 1977.

[2][3] The first stamps marked Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika were issued in 1935, in the form of common design commemoratives for the Silver Jubilee of King George V as well as a definitive series featuring a profile of the king and local scenes.

A definitive series, with new designs, was issued in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth, and in 1958 a pair of commemoratives marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery (from a European perspective) of the Great Lakes of Africa by Burton and Speke.

At this point postal service was taken over by the East African Common Services Organization, which issued commemoratives for the 1964 Summer Olympics inscribed "Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar", even though they were never actually used in Zanzibar.

The Common Services Organization continued to issue various commemoratives, at the rate of about 10-12 per year, until early in 1976.