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Why the nandi were defeated by the british.

Answer Text:
Why the Nandi were defeated by the British.
a) The British obtained support, against the Nandi, from the collaborating communities like the Somali and the Maasai.
b) The British military strength remained superior to that of the Nandi especially in terms of the weapons.
c) There was an outbreak of smallpox in the Nandi country 1890.
d) They Nandi failed to get support from the neighboring Kenyan communities like the Luo and the Abaluhyia who were not friendly to them.
e) The treachery employed by Captain Meinertzhagen, the British commander who lured Nandi Orkoiyot
Koitalel Arap Samoei to a meeting where he was killed.