what event the instrumentation given to the police to check the movement of the pastoralist in colonial Africa
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More than half the pastoral population on Earth lives on the continent of Africa. By an estimation, there are about 22 million pastoral nomads in Africa even today. Some of the well known pastoral nomad tribes in Africa are the Maasai, Berbers, Somali, Boran and a few others.
Most of these tribes raise cattle like goats, camels, sheep, donkeys etc. They sell their milk, hides, meat, fur, wool etc to earn a living. Most of these tribes also combine other activities with the cattle herding. They practice agriculture, do odd jobs to supplement their income.
One of the more prominent tribes of Africa is the Maasai. They were a tribe rich with culture and wealth. However just like in India colonialism has created a lot of problems for them. They lost major parts of their fertile grazing lands to boundary disputes between British Kenya and the German Tanganyika.
The British also encouraged the locals to cultivate more land, and they themselves benefited from this. But again this shrank the land available for pastures. By the time the colonial rule ended in most parts of Africa a lot of damage had already been done. The tribes had suffered huge losses.