Mau Mau: The Land and the WireKenya · 1952–1960“They wrote the highlands down as white, as if the soil had forgotten who terraced it. The forest had not forgotten.”Forty years of petitions about the land that was taken, gazetted and renamed the White Highlands had all returned as new regulations. So a different binding was made: the oath, joining the landless to one another.The lesson the elders kept: Wire and gallows can win an emergency and still lose the empire. A power that must hold a people in camps has already lost the argument it arrived with.