Numbers of English Speakers in East African Countries (1995)

Melchers and Shaw report in their 2003 book, World Englishes, that in 1995 there were 2,576,000 people with a functional command of English in Kenya, 2,000,000 in Uganda, and 3,000,000 in Tanzania. These numbers seem to contradict the information reported in Kanyoro (1991) that I summarized in a previous post that made it sound like English was much more prominent in Kenya than in Tanzania. Melchers and Shaw list both countries as having a population of about 28,000,000 in 1995. I hope the situation clears up as I read more about the topic.