(i) Drought affected the life of pastoralists everywhere. When rains fail and pastures are dry, cattle are likely to starve unless they can be moved to areas where forage is available.
(ii) Since they could not shift their cattle to places where pastures were available, large numbers of Maasai cattle of starvation and *** in the years of drought.
(iii) The Maasai in Kenya possessed 720,000 cattle, 820,000 sheep and 171,000 donkeys. In just two years of severe drought, 1933 and 1934, over half the cattle in the Maasai Reserve ****.
