Question

Explain any three problems faced by massai in colonial period?

Answer 1

Write any three from given 6 points
[1] Before colonial times, Maasai land stretched over a vast area. When European imperial powers scrambled for territorial possession in Africa, they sliced up the region into different colonies. [2] The Maasailand was cut into half with an international boundary. Subsequently, the best grazing lands were taken over for white settlements and the Maasai were pushed into a small area. [3] They were confined to an arid zone with uncertain rainfall and poor pastures. [4] The Britishers encouraged peasants to expand cultivation, so pasturelands were turned into cultivated fields. Once Maasai pastoralists had dominance over their agricultural neighbours, but by the end of colonial rule the situation had reversed. [5] Large areas of grazing lands were also turned into game reserves. Pastoralists were not allowed to enter these reserves. [6] They could neither hunt animals nor graze their herds in these areas.

Answer 2

Maasai, in the colonial period, lost their grazing land as the Britishers began to take away land for farming and reservations.

Explanation:

• Maasai were ethnic communities that stretched over a vast area in Kenya.
• Lands in the border of Kenya became home of the Maasai communities.
• Maasai's main occupation remain herd animals and search for grazing lands.
• As the Britishers began to establish colonies, Maasai communities uprooted from their ground.
• British needed lands of the Maasai people because they were fertile. White settlers began to arrive in these new land and started to practice cultivation and pastoralism.
• After losing land Maasai's cattle herd began to suffer because of drought and available of less grassland.

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