Buganda chiefs works hard on to constitute the Mailo Land title or tunure

The Buganda chiefs, were more interested in preserving Buganda as a self-governing (autonomous) entity, continuing the royal line of kabakas, the preservation of the Lukiiko and securing private land tenure for themselves and their supporters.

This Mailo land tenure in Uganda has its basis from the allocation of land pursuant to the 1900 Uganda Agreement, subject to legislative qualifications.

Hard bargaining ensued, but the chiefs ended up with everything they wanted, including one-half of all the land in Buganda.

The half left to the British as “Crown Land” was later found to be largely swamp and scrub.

Buganda does business with the aim to develop Buganda:

The income generated by cotton sales made the Buganda kingdom relatively prosperous, compared with the rest of colonial Uganda, although before World War I cotton was also being grown in the eastern regions of Busoga, Lango, and Teso.

Uganda being a protectorate which was under the British colonial rule, and also  chartered company of Britain, most of the Baganda chiefs were tax collectors and agents who worked hand in hand with British administrators who were the overseers of the affairs of British business in Uganda.

Baganda uses their earnings to invest in education:

Many Baganda spent their new earnings on imported clothing, bicycles, metal roofing, and even cars. They also invested in their children’s education.

The Christian missions emphasized literacy skills, and African converts quickly learned to read and write.

By 1911 two popular journals, Ebifa (News) and Munno (Your Friend), were published monthly in Luganda.

Heavily supported by African funds, new schools were soon turning out graduating classes at Mengo High School, St. Mary’s Kisubi, Namilyango, Gayaza, and King’s College Budo — all in Buganda.

The chief minister of the Buganda kingdom, Sir Apolo Kaggwa, personally awarded a bicycle to the top graduate at King’s College Budo, together with the promise of a government job.

Buganda kingdom transfers their kingdom knowledge into the younger generation:

The schools, in fact, had inherited the educational function formerly performed in the Kabaka’s palace, where generations of young pages had been trained to become chiefs.

Now the qualifications sought were literacy and skills, including typing and English translation.