The Legal and Policy Framework and Emerging Trends of Large Scale Land Acquisition in Uganda: Implications for Women's Land Rights
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2015
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Centre for Basic Research
Abstract
Land holding systems in pre-colonial Uganda were for a
greater part premised on diverse customary norms and
practices prescribing access and use of land. Crosscutting
among majority communities in Uganda was the
unwavering right for every member of the community
to access land either directly or through an established
authority or entity of association. The latter held true for
“stratified societies” such as Buganda. In such societies,
institutional holding and control of land was largely on
the basis of agency for the members of the community.
Also important in many of the African settings was the
holding of land by the living on agency for the past
and future generations. Specifically for Uganda, the
prevalent customary modes of holding land could be said
to be unknown to the English system. To the British, the
customary system required reform to give it currency.
A number of legislative and other reforms aimed at the
preceding resulted into land changing hands directly and
indirectly, in a way that gave some of them characteristics
of land grabs such as violation of the human rights. Below
is a discussion of some of these.
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Nakayi, R. (2015). The Legal and Policy Framework and Emerging Trends of Large Scale Land Acquisition in Uganda: Implications for Women's Land Rights. Centre for Basic Research.