East Africa Land of Sunshine (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika)

Depicting modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda, the map extends from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to the Ruvuma River.

The map features many of East Africa’s Great Game parks: the Serengeti, Tsavo, Ngorongoro, Marsabit, and Selous. In the lower part of the map, Frank Samuel’s “Ground-Nut Scheme” is shown. Founded in 1946, by the United Africa Company, a subsidiary of Unilever, with the big idea of mass-producing peanuts in what is now Tanzania, to provide Unilever with the vegetable oil it needed for their branded products of margarine and soap. The plan ultimately proved unfeasible, for many reasons, including the prevalence of vicious bees, whose stings were so strong that they hospitalized the workers trying to clear the land, and foundered in 1951.