Soil Conservation Organization in Fort Hall District as Adapted From the Indigenous "Ngwatio" System

Abstract

From time immemorial Bantu tribes have followed the practice of communal assistance in many of their clan activities, ranging from clan warfare to agriculture and the building of huts. The main authority has been vested in the tribal elders, who have been accepted as elders by virtue 01 their wisdom and powers of leadership, and their council direct the lives of the people in their areas. The actual communal assistance or Gwatio was not however directed originally by the elders, but was a purely good neighbour policy" whereby mutual help was given in need by groups of neighbours