ABSTRACT
The modern history of Uganda starts with the Uganda Agreement of 1900 – an agreement in equal measure about land and about governance. The Uganda Agreement was made between the British Government and the Kingdom of Buganda, one component of the Modern state of Uganda. The colonial Government could and often did grant both freehold and leasehold titles of land which persons occupied to persons who applied for such land, with the customary occupiers thereafter being required to move off the land so granted or remaining specifically as tenants at will of the new owner. The referendum on the “Lost Counties” in 1964 went against Buganda and soured relations between the coalition government of the Uganda Peoples’ Congress and Kabaka Yekka – the Baganda only political party. The Government, in the person of the Prime Minister, welcomed the comments, undertook to take the Bill back and rethink some of provisions and indicated a willingness to work with the critics.
