State the reasons which led to the decline of the role of the Akamba in the long distance trade in the 1890's.
Answer:
- Death of Chief Kivoi in 1858 on a hunting mission.
- Exhaustion of Ivory due to Over hunting of elephants
- Penetration to the interior by coastal Arabs and Swahili eliminated the Akamba as middlemen.
- The coming of Christian missionaries who abolished slave trade, undermining the role of the Akamba.
- The Oromo and Maasai unleashed waves of attacks on Akamba caravans occasioning death and loss of goods.
- The Akamba neighbors such as Ameru and Aembu refused to give them ivory
and leopard skin since they were bitter about Akamba slave raids.
- Exhaustion of Ivory due to Over hunting of elephants
- Penetration to the interior by coastal Arabs and Swahili eliminated the Akamba as middlemen.
- The coming of Christian missionaries who abolished slave trade, undermining the role of the Akamba.
- The Oromo and Maasai unleashed waves of attacks on Akamba caravans occasioning death and loss of goods.
- The Akamba neighbors such as Ameru and Aembu refused to give them ivory
and leopard skin since they were bitter about Akamba slave raids.
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