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To: SatinDoll
Kenya was issuing postal stamps that said ‘Republic of Kenya’ long before December 1964.

In fact, someone posted pictures of them on this thread.

Obviously you missed them or didn’t bother to read the whole thread.


They were not issuing postal stamps that said Republic of Kenya before 1964.

The stamps posted to this thread with "republic of kenya" on them are dated 1964. Kenya became a republic in december of 1964, one year after indepdendence, and 10 months after this BC copy was generated. It's possible the stamps were issued in December, as soon as the country was officially a Republic.

So no, the stamps are not evidence that Kenya called itself a republic on official documents before it became one. Maybe we will find evidence elsewhere, but doesn't seem to be it.
2,039 posted on 08/02/2009 11:00:54 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos; SatinDoll

According to this link, their stamps changed in 1961. I can’t find out that they changed to....

http://www.mapsofworld.com/kenya/information/kenya-stamps.html


2,147 posted on 08/02/2009 11:25:27 AM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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