{UAH} Land distribution in Buganda
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Land distribution under the 1900 Buganda agreement
About 1000 square miles went to the Kabaka and his royal family.
About 8000 square miles went to the three regents, saza chiefs, other chiefs and prominent Baganda.
The rest about half of the total land area became Crown land.
The chiefs had a free hand in allocating land to themselves in many cases they chose land already settled and most fertile or traditional burial places. To put an end to religious quarrels, Protestant, Catholic and Muslim chiefs brought along with them their religious fellows and evicted those already settled, creating a chaotic and massive resettlement of Baganda.
Harry Johnston created 20 counties which were distributed along religious lines. Ten were headed by Protestant chiefs; 8 by Catholic chiefs and 2 by Muslim chiefs. The twenty counties included the six Bunyoro counties that had been annexed to Buganda in 1893.
Bataka failed to get their burial places back or be compensated elsewhere, thereby planting the seeds of land disputes to this day. Under NRM government land is changing ownership followed by massive migration from rural to urban areas at a frightening speed. In Uganda as elsewhere land ownership is power and a source of wealth and prestige that is why NRM cadres are grabbing it from voiceless and help peasants with impunity.
Eric
About 1000 square miles went to the Kabaka and his royal family.
About 8000 square miles went to the three regents, saza chiefs, other chiefs and prominent Baganda.
The rest about half of the total land area became Crown land.
The chiefs had a free hand in allocating land to themselves in many cases they chose land already settled and most fertile or traditional burial places. To put an end to religious quarrels, Protestant, Catholic and Muslim chiefs brought along with them their religious fellows and evicted those already settled, creating a chaotic and massive resettlement of Baganda.
Harry Johnston created 20 counties which were distributed along religious lines. Ten were headed by Protestant chiefs; 8 by Catholic chiefs and 2 by Muslim chiefs. The twenty counties included the six Bunyoro counties that had been annexed to Buganda in 1893.
Bataka failed to get their burial places back or be compensated elsewhere, thereby planting the seeds of land disputes to this day. Under NRM government land is changing ownership followed by massive migration from rural to urban areas at a frightening speed. In Uganda as elsewhere land ownership is power and a source of wealth and prestige that is why NRM cadres are grabbing it from voiceless and help peasants with impunity.
Eric
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