A whole society being captured due to greed is not something we are not used to hearing about. Thousands dying within a matter of days due to murder and all forms of brutality has been a reality. Can any of us really imagine having our freedom and everything else that we are used to be taken away within a matter of time. Could we actually visualize social change due to factors such as newcomers or a revolution? Well that is what the people in Kenya faced during the Mau Mau Rebellion between the years of 1952-1956. Passive social control, and the forms used has been an issue when discussing the effectiveness of the Africans resistance. Some would say that there was no such thing as passive resistance, and some like myself would say that passive social control played a huge factor in the shaping of the Africans responses. There is no way to say that violence was not another huge part of the rebellion, but I believe that it played very evenly with propaganda and other passive acts. Intimidation, manipulation, and violence were the keys to a successful defeat. The intimidation scared people, while manipulation turned people of the same culture against one another. And violence came next.
Within propaganda everyone knew that manipulation, as a non-violent form of control would pay off. The first attempt of this was the accusation and arrest of Kenyatta, .
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in which the trial, along with the witnesses were set up. This was an attempt to find out key information, which would help the British in there attack. " It was not only African witnesses that needed to be schooled and bribed". This showed that people were actually paid to accuse Kenyatta of a crime of managing an unlawful and secret society. .
Manipulation was also evident on the night of March 26, 1953 when the Mau Mau guerillas raided the Naivasha police station, which angered and humiliated the British. In return the Mau Mau was not only blamed for the act, but the destruction was also presented to the world as the work of the Mau (Maloba, 101).
