Give reasons for the Maasai collaboration with the British in the 19th century.
Answer:
- The maasai had already been weakened by numerous human and cattle diseases such as
cholera, pneumonia and small pox.
- They had been affected by natural calamities such as prolonged drought and
locust invasion.
- High death toll brought about by natural calamities such as famine.
- The emergence of the Nandi as a strong power which had adverse implications on the
maasai economic and military power.
- The maasai wanted to get their women back who had been left in custody of the
Agikuyu during the 1881 famine that the Agikuyu were refusing to surrender them.
cholera, pneumonia and small pox.
- They had been affected by natural calamities such as prolonged drought and
locust invasion.
- High death toll brought about by natural calamities such as famine.
- The emergence of the Nandi as a strong power which had adverse implications on the
maasai economic and military power.
- The maasai wanted to get their women back who had been left in custody of the
Agikuyu during the 1881 famine that the Agikuyu were refusing to surrender them.
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