Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63

Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 Synopsis

A social history of the Kikuyu squatters in the 'White Highlands'.The author follows the story of the squatters farming the land in the 'White Highlands' at first unused by the Europeans. After 1923 the white settlers demanded more labour from the squatters and began to restrict their use of theland for cultivation and animal husbandry until by the early 1940s most of the squatters livestock had gone. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly that of the women. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP