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Agriama resistance towards the british and its causes

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Agiriama resistance towards the British.
A Bantu speaking group inhabiting the coastal region, their reaction to the British invasion was motivated by the reaction of the Mazrui Arabs and the Swahili who rose up against the British in 1895.
Causes of the Agiriama resistance.
a) They did not want to pay taxes, especially hut tax that was hurting to traditionally polygamous group, to the British.
b) They had lost their independence/the British replaced the Agiriama traditional rulers with their own appointees
c) They were opposed to forced labour on British plantations for little or no pay especially on land that had been snatched from them.
d) The British did not respect their culture. The British policemen at Kitengani insulted the Agiriama culture by raping their women.
e) The Agiriama were reacting against forced conscription into the King’s African Rifles. They were forced to produce a 1000
able-bodied men within a month, join the British army.
f) They lost their land to the British due to the massive land alienation for settler farming. They were forced to offer paid labour on their own former land to the chagrin of the elders.
g) The British, who were seeking to take over the Agiriama role as middlemen, disrupted their trade in ivory and food stuffs.