Question

Name the problems faced by maasais in colonial rule

Answer 1

One of the problems the Maasais have faced is the continuous loss of

their grazing lands. Before colonial times, Maasailand stretched over

a vast area from north Kenya to the steppes of northern Tanzania.

In the late nineteenth century, European imsouth Kenya and north Tanzania. The Maasai lost about 60 per cent

of their pre-colonial lands. They were confined to an arid zone with

uncertain rainfall and poor pastures.

From the late nineteenth century, the British colonial government

in east Africa also encouraged local peasant communities to expand

cultivation. As cultivation expanded, pasturelands were turned into

cultivated fields. In pre-colonial times, the Maasai pastoralists had

dominated their agricultural neighbours both economically and

politically. By the end of colonial rule the situation had reversed

Answer 2

problem is loss of there grazing land