Question

give reasons to explain why the Maasai community lost their grazing lands

Answer 1

grazing lands were taken to white settlement while massais are pushed to live in small area in south kenya

Answer 2

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The Maasai community lost their grazing lands due to following reasons:-

= In 1885, Maasailand was cut into half with an inter - national boundary between the British Kenya and German Tanganyika.

= The best grazing lands were gradually taken over for white settlement and the Maasai were pushed into a small area in South Kenya and North Tanzania.

= The British Colonial government in east Africa also encouraged local peasant communities to expand cultivation.

= Large area of grazing land were also turned into game reserve like the Maasai Mara and Samburu National Park in Kenya and Serengeti Park in Tanzania.