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  East African shilling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The East African Shilling was a currency issued for use in Kenya, British Somaliland, Italian Somaliland, Tanzania, Uganda and parts of Yemen during the time these areas were British colonies and protectorates.
The East African shilling (XEAS) was intoduced in 1921, replacing the short-lived florin at a rate of 2 shillings = 1 florin.
A new version of the currency is proposed by the East African Community, which consists of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and is to coincide with the creation of a constitution and a Federation between the member states in 2010.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_African_shilling   (360 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : East African Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The defunct East African Court of Appeal was a court of appeal for national court’s decisions on both civil and criminal matters, excluding constitutional matters and treason in Tanzania.
The East African Court (EACt) is a treaty based judicial body to ensure adherence to law in the interpretation and application of and compliance with the East African Treaty of 1999.
Jurisdiction of national courts is ousted wherever the Treaty confers it on the East African Court, as decisions of the Court on the interpretation and application of the Treaty have precedence over decisions of national courts on a similar matter.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /East_African_Community   (950 words)

  
 East African Petroleum Conference
The three East African Community countries comprising Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, are located on the eastern side of the African continent.
The East African Community is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, with its Headquarters located in Arusha, Tanzania.
The currency in Kenya is the Kenya shilling, in Uganda is the Uganda shilling, and in Tanzania is the Tanzania shilling.
www.eac.int /eapc/about.php   (401 words)

  
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The East African Currency Board was established in 1919 to issue and administer the currency circulating in British East Africa.
Such was the acceptance of the Shilling in the protectorates, that an agency of the East African Currency Board was established at Mukalla, the principal port of the Eastern protectorates.
Consequently, a request was made to the East African Currency Board not to issue the new series in Aden, but to maintain the circulation of the old notes until Aden had introduced their own currency.
www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/EACBarticle.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Bank notes of South Yemen
However the East African Currency Board had released a new series of notes in October 1964, and it is interesting to compare one of the notes of South Yemen with one of the 1964 "Lake Victoria" issue of the East African Currency Board.
Because both the East African Shilling and the South Arabian Dinar were tied to the pound sterling, the various denominations had exactly the same exchange value.
Thus the 5 shillings of East Africa was equal to the 250 fils of South Yemen, 10 shillings was equal to 500 fils, 20 shillings was equal to 1 dinar (with both being equal to one pound sterling), and 100 shillings was equal to 5 dinars.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/soc/banknotes2.htm   (3093 words)

  
 Tanzania - Search View - MSN Encarta
Tanzania, officially United Republic of Tanzania, republic, south-eastern Africa, bordered on the north by Lake Victoria and Uganda, on the north-east by Kenya, on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the south by Mozambique, Lake Malawi, and Malawi, on the south-west by Zambia, and on the west by Lake Tanganyika, Burundi, and Rwanda.
Tanzania was a member of the East African Community, an economic alliance with Uganda and Kenya that collapsed in 1977, but which has been revived in recent years.
German East Africa became a major theatre of operations, in which General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck tied down about 250,000 British and colonial troops with a makeshift force of 12,000 Africans and 4,000 Germans before finally capitulating in 1918.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761562305__1/Tanzania.html   (4750 words)

  
 Currency - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Royal colonial companies, such as the Massachusetts Bay Company or the British East India Company could issue notes of credit—money backed by the promise to pay later, or exchangeable for payments owed to the company itself.
East African rupee - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
East African shilling - East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda)
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Currency   (2713 words)

  
 Information on Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of, republic in southeastern Africa, bounded on the north by Kenya and Uganda, on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the south by Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia, and on the west by Zaire, Burundi, and Rwanda.
The currency unit is the Tanzanian shilling, which replaced the East African shilling in 1966 (479.9 Tanzanian shillings equal U.S.$1; 1993).
Tanzania was a member of the East African Community, an economic alliance with Uganda and Kenya that collapsed in 1977.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/9328/tanzania.html   (3048 words)

  
 Dissolution of the East African Monetary Union
Because of the common tariff arrangements,and the free inter-East African trade, Tanzania cannot buy in the cheapest market abroad, and equally, she cannot protect her own infant industries against competition from long established and large scale firms in Kenya, and to a lesser extent, Uganda.
The East African shilling was in circulation since 1920 having replaced the rupee.
The East African shilling was initially tied to the pound sterling and the two currencies were freely exchangeable.
www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /eac3.htm   (894 words)

  
 Africa Studies Videos in the Harvard Libraries
Commissioned by the South African Constitutional Assembly to document the process and negotiations which led to the new Constitution which had to be written by the deadline of May 10, 1996.
With one in five South Africans infected with the AIDS virus and one in four pregnant South African women HIV+, the AIDS epidemic is having a devastating impact on the new South Africa.
A landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~cafrica/videos.shtml   (13729 words)

  
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East Germans are far more pessimistic than the Wessies, their brethren in the western Lander.
East European are exceedingly displeased with their income, though they find their family lives agreeable and, in the lands of vertiginous unemployment levels, their jobs appealing.
The parts of East Africa ruled by the British (Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and, in 1936, Zanzibar) adopted in 1922 a single common currency, the East African shilling.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/belgc10.txt   (21111 words)

  
 Róbinson Rojas.- Benjamin J. Cohen: Beyond EMU: The Problem of Sustainability.- RRojas Databank: Analysis and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In East Africa, on the other hand, Britain’s colonial legacy ultimately failed, despite creation of an East African Currency Board as early as 1919 to administer a single money, the East African shilling, for the territories of Kenya, Tanganyika (later part of Tanzania), and Uganda.
In the Central African group, the bank issues an identifiable currency for each member, although each country's currency is similar in appearance, carries the same name (franc de la Coopération Financière Africaine), and is legal tender throughout the region.
This is in contrast to the West African group, where the central bank issues a single currency that circulates freely in all eight states.
www.rrojasdatabank.org /emu.htm   (9179 words)

  
 Uganda - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south.
The area was placed under the charter of the British East Africa Company in 1888, and was ruled as a protectorate by the United Kingdom from 1894.
The current president, Yoweri Museveni, has been in power since 1986 and was viewed as being part of a new generation of African leaders.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/g/a/Uganda.html   (1410 words)

  
 British East Africa Company
Prior to World War 1, Kenya (and Kenya alone) was known officially as British East Africa, just as Tanganyika was officially known as German East Africa in the same period.
Subsequently, the term "East Africa" was loosely applied to Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda collectively because they shared a number of institutions - a common currency (the East African shilling), airline (East African Airways), etc.
After independence, the three countries were grouped in an East African Economic Community, administered by an East African Commission for a time.
www.fotw.net /flags/eaf-brit.html   (989 words)

  
 Coin Collecting - Modern currencies and countries (P-Z)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Shilling mark - (formerly) A virgule, as used as a divider between shilling and pence: one reads 2/6 as "two shillings and sixpence" or "two and six"
The lilangeniis at par with the South African rand
Tanzanian shilling replaced the East African shilling (£) on June 14, 1966.
www.fleur-de-coin.com /e-library/currencies3.asp   (5016 words)

  
 Tanzania: Business Scenario
The currency unit is the Tanzanian shilling, which replaced the East African shilling in 1966.
Tanzania is a member of the East African Community, an economic alliance with Uganda and Kenya.
Zanzibar is known throughout the world as the jewel of the Indian Ocean and has a romantic, colourful history of seafarers and explorers, of riches and tragedy, and the dark stain of slavery.
www.africa-business.com /features/tanzania.html   (1256 words)

  
 Regional Integration and Cooperation: Realistic Avenues in the Next Millennium
The European Union(EU) and the African, Caribean and the Pacific (ACP) group of countries are in the process of reexamining their cooperative instrument, the Lomé Convention framework, which has linked them over the past twenty years.
The situation is different in the African context where smaller groups exist side-by-side with the larger bloc and operate as completely independent and autonomous bodies and virtually as if the larger bloc did not exist, and vice versa.
This poses for the African regional arrangements an enormous challenge because of the tremendous difficulties that they are experiencing including the area of trade liberalization.
www.acpsec.org /summits/gabon/eca/eca.htm   (7761 words)

  
 Kenya page
In 1902 Joseph Chamberlain visited the area and suggested the area later known as the "White Highlands" should be offered to the Zionists as a possible home for the Jews (then still known as Uganda, before the present borders of the British territories were adjusted in 1902).
At that time the area east of the Rift Valley was known as the East African Protectorate, and the area to the west was Uganda.
Of these KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) was a coalition of minority groups to counter the Kikuyus and Luos.
www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/africa/kenya.html   (2481 words)

  
 fx4business
The currency was established in 1974 at par with the SOUTH AFRICAN RAND.
Currency was established in 1966 at par with the EAST AFRICAN SHILLING.
Currency was established in 1966, at par with the East African SHILLING, and revalued at a rate of 1 new SHILLING = 100 old SHILLINGs in 1987.
www.fx4business.com /services/qfer3.html   (2010 words)

  
 Africa - Coins of Somaliland
The level of success of the introduction of the EACB monies to British Somaliland was such that in 1948 (the year in which the military administration of British Somaliland ended) both East African Shillings and Indian Rupees were in use (Source -World History at KMLA, page entitled History of Somaliland, on the internet at http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/whkmla/region/eastafrica/somaliland193960.html).
However in contrast to the issues of 1 Shilling coins, many millions of the East Africa 50 Cents / Half Shilling coins were issued with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (seven dates ranging from 1954 through to 1963).
The 1967 1 Scellino was of similar size to its predecessors the East African 1 Shilling and the 1 Somalo of Somalia.
www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk /af-sol.htm   (2382 words)

  
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An East African Airways Super VC10 is observed by an armed RAF policeman (left).
East African Airways had its own distinctive livery, except on the Britannias it chartered from BOAC.
Until the sixties Aden and the East African countries had close political and economic links - all used a common currency - the East African shilling.
www.mccrow.org.uk /EastAfrica/Aden/AdenAirport.htm   (413 words)

  
 The EastAfrican on the Web
EDWIN MTEI, the last secretary general of the first East African Community - which collapsed in 1977 - and former Tanzanian minister for finance, talks to Special Correspondent STANLEY KAMANA on the economic path taken by Tanzania during the 24-year rule of Julius Nyerere.
You were the first governor of the Bank of Tanzania, which is believed to have struck the first blow to the former East African Community prompting the demise of the East African Currency Board - which had ensured the strength of the common currency, and thus the common market.
While the official exchange rate for the shilling was 9.60 to the dollar, in Zurich or even in Nairobi, the market rate was Tsh70 to the dollar.
www.nationmedia.com /eastafrican/17012005/Features/Part170120052Tz.html   (2384 words)

  
 Tanzanian Shilling - Search Results - MSN Encarta
As at early 2005, 1,137 Tanzanian shillings equalled...
The monetary unit of Tanzania is the Tanzanian shilling, which replaced the East African shilling in 1966 (1,137 Tanzanian shillings equalled US$1;...
Kenya Shilling, Somali Shilling, Tanzanian Shilling, Uganda Shilling
uk.encarta.msn.com /Tanzanian_Shilling.html   (87 words)

  
 Info About Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Tanzania, United Republic of, republic, south-eastern Africa, bounded on the north by Lake Victoria and Uganda, on the north-east by Kenya, on the east by the Indian Ocean, on the south by Mozambique, Lake Malawi, and Malawi, on the south-west by Zambia, and on the west by Lake Tanganyika, Burundi, and Rwanda.
More than 90 per cent of the population of Tanzania consists of indigenous African groups, the majority of whom speak Bantu languages; there are also Nilotic groups, such as the Masai.
The currency unit is the Tanzanian shilling, which replaced the East African shilling in 1966 (533.992 Tanzanian shillings equal US$1; 1995).
www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Alley/9519/page3.htm   (3416 words)

  
 Coin Collecting - Modern currencies and countries (A-F)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A coin of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda and a former coin of Aden, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria New Zealand, Rhodesia, the Federation of Southern Arabia, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar the 100th part of a shilling.
The United States Dollar became the principal national currency from March 2000 and was formally adopted as the national currency on September 9, 2000; the pegged value of the Sucre (S/.) the former national currency, to the U. dollar from March 2000 was S/.
CFA franc is the Monetary unit of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast), Dahomey, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo and the former Monetary unit of Comoros, Mauritania, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Upper Volta equal to 100 centimes.
www.fleur-de-coin.com /e-library/currencies.asp?hide=true   (5236 words)

  
 The Bank Notes of Somalia -- Part 2
            At the time of unification, the East African shilling was circulating in the former British Protectorate of Somaliland and the somalo was circulating in the former Trust Territory.
Firstly, the Monetary Ordinance of 6 March 1961 established the somalo as the currency for the unified nation, after which Presidential Decree No.93 of 10 April 1961 authorized the exchange of East African shillings with somali in the Northern Region (formerly the British Protectorate).
on the front of the notes, they are also identified as ‘Somali shillings’ in English and ‘shilin Somali’ in Arabic in alternate corners on the front of the notes.
www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/somalia(part2).htm   (3791 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Uganda, 1939-1962
In 1945 a census established 2,583 Europeans, 28,512 Asiatics and 3,966,595 Africans in Uganda.
The South an East African Yearbook comments "Where the incentive exists the Natives of Uganda can be industrious and willing workers, and at skilled trades they are, generally speaking, apt pupils.
However, in Buganda conservative elements were worried about the prospect of democratization and about a possible East African federation (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika) which would reduce the political importance of the Kingdom.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eastafrica/uganda193962.html   (432 words)

  
 The Best Kenyan Currency Related Websites | The Currency Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kenyan Shilling (KES) Kina (PGK) Kip (LAK) Kroon (EEK) Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD) Kwacha (MWK) Kwacha (ZMK)...
The Kenyan shilling is the currency used in Kenya.
Coins as of 2005 are 50 cents and 1 shilling in brass and...
www.dreamcurrency.com /currency/kenyan-currency.html   (237 words)

  
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Used by the wild Africans as an aid to the memory in an [sic] negotiation of importance.
She visited relatives in Missouri, Colorado and Montana, where she exhibited African artifacts and spoke to community and radio audiences about her experiences as the first white woman missionary among the Lega people, who called her Nyafikili, "Mama Thinker." She returned to the Belgian Congo in July 1929 and remained another ten years.
In The African Republic and the Belgian Congo, Vol.
voom.si.edu /leopold/early_african_collections.txt   (16530 words)

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