Land Use in the Overpopulated Areas Of Kabale, Kigezi District, Uganda

Abstract

Kigezi District is situated in the extreme south-west of Uganda and is bordered by the Belgian Congo on the west and Belgian Ruanda-Urundi on the south. It was one of the last districts in Uganda to come under British rule and the present boundaries were defined by the Anglo-German-Belgian Boundary Commission of 1912. The first Europeans to enter Kigezi were Emin Pasha and Stuhlmann in 1891. Civil administration commenced in 1912 and the district headquarters were moved to the present site at Kabale in 1914.