Give the reasons why the Maasai collaborated with the British in Kenya.
Answer:
-The rise of the Nandi into political power weakened them since the Nandi kept raiding them for cattle.
- Succession dispute between Lenana and Sendeyo whereby Lenana requested for British support against his brother Sendeyo.
- Natural calamities outbreak such as small pox, rinderpest and pneumonia which affected both people and animals weakened them.
- The Kedong Massacre whereby Andrew Dick opened fire killing 100 Maasai warriors in a short time made the Maasai warriors to fear the British and the power of the gun.
- Severe famine due to the natural calamities made Lenana to seek for food assistance from the British ports.
- The Maasai wanted British assistance so as to get wives and children who had left under the custody of the Agikuyu during the1891 famine. The Agikuyu were refusing to surrender them back to the Maasai.
- Succession dispute between Lenana and Sendeyo whereby Lenana requested for British support against his brother Sendeyo.
- Natural calamities outbreak such as small pox, rinderpest and pneumonia which affected both people and animals weakened them.
- The Kedong Massacre whereby Andrew Dick opened fire killing 100 Maasai warriors in a short time made the Maasai warriors to fear the British and the power of the gun.
- Severe famine due to the natural calamities made Lenana to seek for food assistance from the British ports.
- The Maasai wanted British assistance so as to get wives and children who had left under the custody of the Agikuyu during the1891 famine. The Agikuyu were refusing to surrender them back to the Maasai.
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