, Tabitha Kanogo insists on the place occupied, and the role played by squatters in the structuring of the movement (Tabitha Kanogo, Squatters ad the Roots of Mau Mau, The first overviews to examine the social and political origins of the revolt were published at the end of the nine teeneighties, pp.1945-1953, 1987.

, or the ordinary population studied from the point of view of oaths of allegiance (Great Kershaw, Mau Mau from Below [London: James Currey, 1997]) have contributed to the reawakening of individual memories. The most recent works, such as those by Caroline Elkins concerning the memory of the victims of repression, The Standard, 1992.