Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Departments: Registered Files, East Africa (EA Series)

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Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Departments: Registered Files, East Africa (EA Series)
Description:

This series consists of records produced by the East Africa and East Africa Political Departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office relating to British and Commonwealth relations with Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika (later Tanzania), Zanzibar and Mauritius.

Date: 1963-1967
Related material:

For later Commonwealth Office files see:

FCO 31

FCO 45

FCO 29

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, East Africa Department, 1967-1967

Commonwealth Relations Office, East Africa Department, 1963-1964

Commonwealth Relations Office, East Africa Political Department, 1964-1966

Physical description: 260 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The East Africa Department dealt with UK and Commonwealth political and economic relations with Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (later Tanzania) and Mauritius. In 1964 the Department was split and two new East Africa Political and Economic Departments were created, and the records in this series are those produced by the political department. The single East Africa Department was reconstituted in 1966. Between March 1967 and February 1968 the interests of Commonwealth East Africa were the responsibility of the East and Southern Africa Department. On the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, responsibility for relations with East Africa passed to the FCO East African Department.

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