The rinderpest was not just a cattle disease; it was the coloniser's most brutal weapon. It shattered our pastoral economies, creating the famine and despair that made military conquest and new land laws possible. But to only see it as a tool ignores how our own elders say the deep loss of the herds broke our spirit more than any treaty. I know this because my own grandfather’s stories of that hunger were always heavier with the silence of the empty kraal than with the sound of the European’s gun.
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