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How did Rinderpest become instrumental in subjugating the Africans?

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(i) The Loss of 90% of the cattle destroyed African livelihoods.
(ii) Planters, mine owners, and colonial governments now successfully monopolized what scarce cattle resources remained, to strengthen their power and forced Africans into the labor market.
(iii) Control over the scarce resource of cattle enabled European colonizers to conquer and subdue Africa.



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