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Discuss the results of the Bantu migration into Kenya in the pre-colonial period.

      

Discuss the results of the Bantu migration into Kenya in the pre-colonial period

  

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John
1. Led to increased trading activities

2. Population increased in areas they settled

3. Warfare with neighboring communities e.g. Maasai and Luo increased

4. Spread of their agricultural knowledge and skills in Kenya

5. Migration of Bantu led to Displacement of some communities e.g the Dorobo and the Eastern Cushites

6. Intermarriage with other communities e.g. the Maasai and Luo

7. More land was brought under cultivation using using iron tools

8. They displaced some communities e.g. the Ogiek

9. Spread of iron working skills to other part of the country.

10. The Bantu developed new political institutions

11. The Bantus absorbed and assimilated some of the communities e.g. Gumba.

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Discuss the result of the migration and settlement of the eastern Bantu into Kenya by 1900

i) The incoming Bantu communities had iron weapons which enabled them to displace some of the communities which they came into contact with for example Gumba in the slopes of Mt

Kenya,

ii) They intermarried with their neighbours/those people they came into contact with such as the Cushites and Nilotes

iii) Their settlement led to expansion/development of trade between them and neighbours

iv) There was cultural exchange between the Bantu and their Cushitic and Nilotic neighbours

v) Expansion of the Bantu created pressure over land, which led to inter community conflict and wars

vi) Inter-community conflicts led to loss of lives and destruction of property

vii) Adoption of some agricultural practices from the Bantu
johnmulu answered the question on January 24, 2017 at 05:48


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