More than 22,500 Bull McCabes in Uganda

Thousands of stories like John B Keane’s The Field in the 227 million hectares sold or leased in large-scale land deals since 2001. Denise Hall reports.

LAND — they are not making any more of “the solid part of the surface of the earth, as distinct from lakes, seas, etc.”

Of course, it’s much more than that for those who live on the land and reap its bounty — check out the Bull McCabe’s impassioned roars in defence of his plot in The Field, or the stately speeches of dispossessed native American chiefs.