Malakote

Malakote may or may not have been a real region in what is now Kenya, formerly British East Africa.  File:Malakote bogus.jpg 
 * It has been reported as being the same as Witu, which has not been not proven to the writer's satisfaction. There are the Malakote people living some distance inland from what was Witu, so the name or name change makes little sense that way.
 * Four values in an Arabic or Swahili numeral design are known, reported as being prepared but never issued due to the changeover to a British possession/protectorate in 1890 following the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty. Boxed CTO cancels are known including modern ones that appear to have been done by a cheap dot-matrix computer printer. The Denhardt Brothers in Witu are credited or blamed for Witu's stamps and are credited or blamed for the Malakota issue as well. Others argue that this is a completely bogus issue; this writer agrees with that opinion due to the high denominations of each value.
 * A fantasy 3 rupee ("rupie") value showing a rider on a camel also exists with a similar frame, hand-colored. No origin or date has been found for this.

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