ABSTRACT
A great deal of publicity has been given to the suggestion that the Mau Mau movement ‘is not the child of economic pressure or connected with any special grievances’ .
It is true that Mau Mau, as such, is a terrorist organization whose principal aim is to drive the white man out of Kenya. I do not believe, however, that the movement could ever have achieved its present position if the genuine grievances which I have outlined in some of my chapters had not existed in the minds of a large part of the Kikuyu population.
