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State three reasons that influenced Lewanika to collaborate with British

      

State three reasons that influenced Lewanika to collaborate

  

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i) Hoped to preserve and maintain his position as a king and the independence of his kingdom

ii) Under the influence of a missionary, Francois Coillard, Lewanika hoped to benefit from Christianity
by getting medicine and western education.

iii) he was encouraged by Chief Khama of the Ngwato who had collaborated and benefited from the
Europeans.

iv) Lewanika hoped to benefit from British by getting European goods such as arms for territorial defense in order to preserve the economic activities of his people.

v) desire to get direct protection from the British against the Portuguese to the east, the Boers to the
West, the Germans to the north and BSAC

vi) He feared the European military superiority after being informed by his men who had gone to Kimberly in South African about the supremacy of the British.
johnmulu answered the question on April 27, 2017 at 06:36


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