h a real genealogical link with the Mukama are accorded special prestige, and the closer the relationship, the greater the prestige claimed and acknowledged." In addition to prestige, those who can claim descent from a past Mukama may also be granted land, and thus territorial rights over that land. Today, European influence has broken down the traditional association between rights over land and political authority, and so the once all powerful Bito descendants are no longer the wealthy and powerful group which the
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