Answer:
From
the late 19th century, the Colonial Government began imposing various
restrictions on the mobility of the pastoralists. The Maasai and other groups,
were forced to live within the confines of special reserves.
They could only move within the boundaries of these reserves. In many
regions, pastoralists were prohibited from participating in any form of trade.
White settlers and European Colonists saw pastoralists as
dangerous and primitive. So, the pastoral community was not allowed to enter
the markets in white areas.
The chief of the pastoralists appointed by the Colonial
Government became wealthy and survived devastations of war and drought. But the
poor pastoralists did not have the resource to survive in bad times. They had
to take add jobs like charcoal burners, daily labourers in road and building
construction.
Thus, it was not really possible for the colonial power to
cut off all links with the pastoral community. Even today, 22 million Africans
are pastoralists.
While white colonists had to depend on black labour to
bore mines, build roads and towns, they had to depend on pastoral community
automatically.
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