It is easy to see how many of these passive social control factors played a part. For instance when the "White Paper" was published and said that the Mau were" a conspiracy designed to dominate first the Kikuyu tribe and then all other Africans, and to drive out all of the other races and take power in Kenya. This strategy was successful because it only presented a negative view of the Africans. This strategy sometimes is still successful today. The only difference now is that both parties are capable of putting out information. So the reader or viewer has the chance to come to there own conclusions. The Mau with their beliefs and oaths were taking place in a revolt, and the British through manipulation totally put a negative portrayal on it to deny it of everything. The Mau were called " savages, anti-Christian, anti-white, and criminals". This had to be one factor that played a major part in the limitations that the Africans had to effect social change. The British focused on the biases and the information that they knew would not sit right with the .
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people all around the area. This resulted in them being viewed as the enemies. There oaths which were broken down into the Unity oath, Batuni oath, and the " advanced .
oaths" were looked at as the work of the devil. This form of non-violent response from the British did a lot more harm to the Mau than good.
Intimidation by the British was another largely effective tool that helped them in conquering Kenya. Their attitudes and ways of acting out certain schemes could cause fear before anyone was even touched. " The British had experience". This shows that they had confidence, which presents a sense of intimidation by itself. Another form of control within intimidation was the gathering of African troops known as KAR (Kings African Rifles). Besides these members being " sell outs" they were intimidated, so rather than face the chance of dying they chose to work for the colonizers.
