The sad thing about the maumau and so many of us now, is that we think that the fight for freedom is about property and wealth. Hence some will exhort those who feel oppressed to work 3 or 4 times harder.
Others believe that they can avoid political struggle and watch from the sidelines, but this is by itself a delusion and a sign that so many of us are politically unschooled or miseducated.
Maumau are a fiasco because they didn't understand the politics of knowledge. Military force will always be subordinate to knowledge and its politics.
Political struggle is about seeking, creating, distributing, controlling and maintaining adaptive knowledge in the body politic. Nowadays for example, military operations follow psychological operations which are essentially knowledge based. Whoever has the upper hand in terms of knowledge can direct other forces and in effect becomes the elite.
It appears then that liberation can't be a once and for all thing, and that clinging to history is absurd. Again, what we call the second liberation is no liberation at all if we consider the effects of multipartism on the politics and sociology of knowledge. Like now many rely on Baba for truth just like in the past before multipartism when Baba still dictated what we knew as truth.
The new elites who took independence and who've governed to present were not liberated and aren't the voice of liberation because they have only affirmed the knowledge of the colonizers and oppressors. Critical citizens do not question this knowledge but continually affirm it, and even more they get easily fooled with money.
Fiasco. Fiasco.