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  KCSE History and Government Paper 1 Revision Questions and Answers Set 4

Give reasons for the Maasai collaboration with the British in the #19^th# century.

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- The maasai had already been weakened by numerous human and cattle diseases such as cholera, pneumonia and small pox.
- They had been affected by natural calamities such as prolonged drought and locust invasion.
- High death toll brought about by natural calamities such as famine.
- The emergence of the Nandi as a strong power which had adverse implications on the maasai economic and
military power.
- The maasai wanted to get their women back who had been left in custody of the Agikuyu during the 1881 famine that the Agikuyu were refusing to surrender them.


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