Publication

The article analyses land tenure reform in Uganda. The author argues that recent analyses limit the discussion to landlords and rural elites on the one hand versus the central government and donors on the other. He instead proposes that ethnicity plays an important role in land tenure reform in Africa. Both ethnic attachment to land in Buganda areas in Uganda and an ethnic bias towards western Ugandans at the central state level, have had serious political repercussions. The failure of the Ugandan government to address Baganda worries has contributed to increasing pressure for federalism and Bugandan autonomy.