Answer the following question.
Describe the impact of 'Rinderpest' on people's livelihoods and the local economy in Africa in the 1890s.
Following are the prime effects of Reinderpest:
- Rinderpest killed 90 percent of the cattle.
- The loss of cattle destroyed African livelihoods.
- It strengthened the colonial government's power and Africans were forced into the labour market which earlier they were reluctant to do due to an abundance of land and livestock.
- European colonizers thus conquered and subdued Africa.
Concept: Making of a Global World - Nineteenth Century Global Economy, Colonialism
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