THE SURVEYOR AND THE POLITICIAN: AN AFRICAN OBJECT-LESSON

Abstract

THE surveyor usually finds his employment to be an instrument wielded for military ends or in the furtherance of civil administrative policy and of those economic interests which are built upon security and good government. But he can often lend valuable and sometimes invaluable assistance in the framing of policy. The delimitation of interterritorial boundaries is one of the more obvious undertakings in which failure to enlist technical advice is liable to lead governments into grave and irreparable errors. The same considerations apply to the evolution of a land-settlement policy, and a moral may be pointed from a comparison of two such policies which have at different periods been adopted in the Uganda Protectorate.