Explain the effects of Bantu migration into Kenya in the pre-colonial period
Answer:
- They spread iron working technology in areas where they settled.
- Population increased in areas the settled.
- It intensified inter-community conflicts/warfare over control of resources.
- Increased trade between the Bantus and their neighbours.
- There was cultural interaction between the Bantus and their neighbours.
- Absorption and assimilation of the neighbouring communities.
- They spread-crop growing to their neighbours i.e. the Kwavi Maasai.
- It led to population redistribution in the region they had settled.
- It led to displacement of some communities. - It led to intermarriage between the Bantu and their neighbours.