Answer:
Rinderpest was
a devastating cattle disease.
(i) It arrived in
Africa in the late 1880's. It was carried by infected cattle imported from
British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading Eritrea in East Africa.
(ii)
Rinderpest then spread like forest fire, reaching the Western Africa and Southern
tip of Africa too. It killed almost 90% of the cattle.
(iii) The
loss of cattle destroyed African livelihoods.
(iv) Planters,
mine owners and colonial governments now successfully monopolized the remaining
scarce cattle resources to strengthen their power and to force Africans into
the labour market.
(v) Control over the
scarce resource of cattle enabled European colonizers to conquer and subdue
Africa.
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