Rinderpest cattle plague devastated which continent in the 1890s, weakening African economies and labour resistance to colonial conquest?

1. syllabus discusses Rinderpest as a case study. 2. Rinderpest reached Africa in the late 1880s and killed approximately 90% of cattle. 3. This destroyed African livelihoods, weakened resistance, and helped colonial powers monopolise scarce cattle and labour. _Source: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 3 "The Making of a Global World", §Rinderpest ¶1_