The then British East Africa comprised of (1) Kenya Colony & Protectorate ( i.e. Coast Province of Kenya which I believe was obtained by the British from the Sultanate of Zanzibar) (2) Uganda (3) Tanganyika ( a former German colony that came into British posession at the end of the First World Was in 1917 as a war reparation) and (4) the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba which were ruled by the sultans of Omani origin
People of the Indian origin who had settled down in East Africa were mostly Gujaratis ( Hindus, Jains and Shia Muslims like Bohris, Ismailis and Itnasheris ) Punjabis ( Hindus, Sikhs and Sunni Muslims ) and a few thousand Goan catholics. Prior to 1947, I am not sure what kind of British Passports were held by Gujaratis and Punjabis ( there were no Indian passports before 1947) but Goans had Portuguese passports. Some Goans in East Africa did blindly follow the traditions of Mestizo (Portuguese by half) community and proudly started calling themselves Portuguese, an expression that might have led Robert Gregory to describe brown skinned Goans as Black Europeans. Children of Gujratis, Punjabis and Goans who were born in East Africa claimed British Passports i.e. "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies "" if they were born in Kenya (Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Eldoret ) and all others including those who were born in Kenya' Coast Province ( Mombasa and Malindi) Uganda and Tanzania were given British passports with the status of ""British Portected Person "". It was these British passports that in the end facilitated their settlement in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. A note to Merwyn & Elsie Maciel :: Vivian D'Souza is quite right he was born in a European hospital in Dar es Salaam. In this connection please refer to Merwyn Lobo and Antonio Menezes' posts on "European Citizenship" dated 03 June and 06 June 2008 respectively
