How to Integrate Statutory and Customary Tenure? The Uganda Case

Abstract

The last two decades have witnessed extensive land tenure reform in East and Southern Africa, with almost every country in the region having undergone some kind of reform. The reform process has been accompanied by much discussion on the need to integrate customary and statutory land tenure systems in policy and legislation. Indeed, so much has been said that sometimes it is difficult to draw the line between what is real and what is fiction; the essential concepts have become blurred by the divergent and some times controversial interpretations of these two seemingly irreconcilable concepts.