Hoima District Archives
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HOIMA DISTRICT ARCHIVES The Hoima District Archive The Hoima District Archive consists of the papers of the District Local Government of Hoima District. Hoima is one of Uganda’s oldest administrative centers. Its archive was formerly housed in two repositories. The larger collection, held at the district’s newly-built headquarters buildings in Kasingo, dated very largely from the 1970s and 80s, though there was material stretching back to the 1940s or 50s. The files covered a wide range of issues, from land policy to township board minutes to forestry policy. A second, smaller, older collection was housed in Boma, the government headquarters in Hoima town. The files were not boxed, and neither was there a list of the contents of the collection. With the agreement of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. George Ntulume, and of the District Local Government, a team from Mountains of the Moon University in Fort Portal relocated the Hoima District Archive to the University’s premises in 2014. In the ensuing months the papers were placed in subject order, cleaned, re-covered, boxed and catalogued. The cataloguing project has illuminated the great value of this collection. In all, it consists of some 1168 lid boxes of material. The oldest files date from 1921; the bulk of the collection dates from the 1930s through the 1970s. There is material on the operation of the district courts, correspondence to and from the office of the omukama (king) of Bunyoro, records of the resettlement areas that were established for Rwandan refugees in the 1960s, material on price controls, trade, and a host of other matters. There is a substantial deposit concerning agriculture and veterinary work in the district. There is a similarly large collection on education, including reports on the inspection of schools. And there is a large body of material on land and land policy, including survey reports of the geology of the area and material on mineralogy and geology. It is, in other words, a collection of great value. The cataloguing team has organized the files so as to preserve the categories in which the archive was originally organized. The archive is broadly divided into two deposits. The first, labeled ‘Hoima B’, contains files that were originally housed in the Boma building; the second, labeled ‘Hoima K’, contains files that were originally housed in Kasingo. Within each deposit files are organized by subject heading. The abbreviations used in the catalogue to identify the subjects are as follows: ADMIN: Administration FINANCE: Finance PUW: Public Works EDUC: Education DEV’T: Development LABOR: Labour STAFF: Personnell MISC: Miscellaneous MED: Medical FORESTRY: Forestry DB & M: Deaths, Births and Marriages LAND: Land AGRI-VET: Agriculture and Veterinary affairs GAME: Game JUD: Judicial and court affairs ARMS: Arms and ammunition IMMIG: Immigration P & C: Population and Census VISITS: Visitors SPORTS: Sports and athletics ELECTION: Elections PP: Personnel file INFO & COM: Information and Communications CO-OP: Cooperative Development TRADE: Trade and Commerce SCW: Social and Community Welfare NAF: Native Affairs PUW: Public Works POLICE: Police File boxes are organized numerically and by subject order. So boxes 1 through 155 contain files concerning the administration of Hoima District (originating from the Boma archive); boxes 686 through 770 concern education in Hoima (originating from the Kasingo archive). The cataloguing of the Hoima District Archive was conducted by Mr. Akugizibwe Moses, Mr. Kimbugwe Adolph, Mr. Amanyire Edgar, and Ms. Baryauza Anna, working under the district of Mr. Evarist Ngabirano. Funding for the project has come from the Cooperative Africana Materials Project of the Center for Research Libraries, and from the African Studies Center, University of Michigan (USA). Hoima District Archives 1 INSTITUT CATEG START END BOX FILE ION ORY DATE DATE FILE NAME CONTENT 1 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 20/10/70 26/5/76 Team planing:correspondences with town planning board Corresp' with the Central government Minutes of the district team and planning committee 2 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 8/12/77 2/5/78 (other districts) Bushenyi, Mbale, Rwenzori etc. 2 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 1/6/79 29/6/79 District commisioner correspondences (June 1979) Request for fuel, meetings, etc 3 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 13/12/77 14/1/82 List of minute papers Filling system Common wealth-youth Sunday correspondences and 4 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 21/11/74 6/12/75 celebrations Archive files, filing system, communications 5 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 8/6/49 13/5/63 List of minute papers from DC's Claim for tavelling allowance,repair of government 5 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 12/6/56 21/4/59 bicycle,charging battery(General reciepts) 6 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 18/6/78 19/6/79 Minutes of various meetings Reports, corespondence of commisioners and 7 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 25/11/50 25/3/55 Native admin prisons and prisoners (Reports in pilot file) native gov't 7 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 3/1/73 24/9/74 County team minutes-Bunyoro district admin 8 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 15/11/45 28/3/62 Masindi township authority minutes of meetings Minutes recording sheet dev't etc 8 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 28/3/55 25/7/58 Native Admin and prisons (reports in pilot files) Grant for Africa-Local gov't prisons The minutes of Kagadi sub-district team planing 9 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 18/5/82 18/1/00 committee regarding different departments Bunyoro tsetse control reclamation correspondences and 9 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 20/4/59 20/4/59 reports Tsetse control reports 10 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 26/1/51 1/9/59 Local governemt policy Issues on lost counties Chiefs correspondences on insecurity in different sub- 10 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 27/10/54 10/6/86 counties Tribal clashes 10 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 18/7/50 26/3/65 Relaton with rulers in Agreement countries Corres of Bunyoro Kitara 11 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 7/6/74 1/3/79 Provincial planning committee meetings and minutes 11 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 21/11/36 20/1/38 Reports-Quarterly, half yearly, annual 11 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 23/5/61 27/8/84 Rukurato speeches Speeches of Omukama 1964 & Katikiro etc 12 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 16/1/75 6/7/82 Minutes and reports of chiefs on Agriculture Reports from different counties 12 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 31/7/64 8/6/65 Personal paper; Mr. F.K. Mulogo, ADC, Masindi Law exams for admnistrative officers 12 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 1/3/86 Masindi district Admin annual report 13 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 10/4/61 1/4/57 District officers safari file Bugahya 13 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 30/8/61 4/3/59 Mr. H.F. Low field officer, Kingumba Responces of brobation officer and court 13 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 8/5/51 25/3/53 Petitions and complaints Ministers and Governers' speeches (including policy 14 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 15/2/71 10/11/81 speeches) Ministerial statements 14 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 15/6/61 26/10/69 Enquiries-General Annual reports, reports to officials Hoima District Archives 2 INSTITUT CATEG START END BOX FILE ION ORY DATE DATE FILE NAME CONTENT 14 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 2/7/85 31/7/85 Correspondences on different aspects Minutes of the planning committee for sub districts of 15 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 23/7/75 13/3/84 hoima Bukwa, Kakumiro, Palisa etc sub-districts Correspondences btn the Admin & UEB on 15 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 28/8/59 20/6/67 street lightings lighting of the street Registration of refugees and non-natives in Hoima 16 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 28/3/68 15/4/83 including Kyangwali reports Inflight of people in Hoima 16 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 11/4/74 30/9/74 ADG 2 Joseph Rujumba Various corres' file ADG 16 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 11/12/70 24/12/70 Miscelleneous file consultative meetings Minutes of District team and planning committee (other 17 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 6/9/77 12/1/78 districts) Karamoja, Nebbi, Rwenzori etc 18 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 28/10/71 11/6/85 Bunyoro district Admin tender boards 19 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 30/6/60 22/6/85 District team minutes minutes, Bunyoro 19 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 21/6/73 4/2/74 Annual & monthly reports by heads of departments Monthly and annual reports South bunyoro district team & planning committee 20 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 25/7/73 2/2/76 minutes minutes, reports tec 20 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 29/10/71 27/7/73 District team & planning committee Bunyoro district team 21 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 10/12/71 15/5/72 Minutes of the other district planning committee 21 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 28/4/60 9/2/63 Protectorate stores-tender board Bunyoro district Minutes of the District team & planning committee 22 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 13/6/75 23/10/75 meetings Reports and minutes Personal file; J.K Kajunjube; land supervisor, Hoima 22 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 29/12/21 5/6/67 Masindi 23 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 25/1/50 2/4/63 Empire day; kings birthday, corronation, queen visits etc corresspondences from omukama's office 23 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 30/5/47 17/4/62 Hoima township authority, minutes and meetings Reports of other districts. Masaka, etc. Minutes of District team planning committee other 24 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 25/7/74 12/11/74 district Reports of other districts. Masaka, etc. 24 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 29/8/95 1/8/95 LGTB Hoima town council 24 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 20/5/57 List of confidential file 25 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 17/2/67 23/9/70 Minutes of the district team 25 2 HOIMA B ADMIN Bibansa File List of registered members Bugoma Licence,labour lines,inpection notes & 26 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 18/5/62 29/10/76 correspondences Chiefs work & medical departments Empire day, kings birthday; records of messages and 26 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 21/2/53 30/5/56 programmers 27 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 30/8/65 19/1/71 Masindi town council finance and education committee Committee reports and review of activities Legislative council-Elections (Application for 27 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 11/8/58 8/9/58 emoloyment Hoima District Archives 3 INSTITUT CATEG START END BOX FILE ION ORY DATE DATE FILE NAME CONTENT 27 3 HOIMA B ADMIN 10/7/95 2/9/95 General correspondence; Bugahya county 28 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 24/8/56 20/10/71 Members of legislative general work (National assembly) Legislative laws and decrees 28 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 6/7/64 5/4/67 District teaam minutes Notification for meetings 29 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 7/3/75 24/4/75 Minutes & reports of other district Karamoja, Rwenzori, Koboko, Mengo Minutes nad agenda of south Bunyoro district team and 30 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 12/12/74 4/5/79 planing committee 30 2 HOIMA B ADMIN 2/1/53 11/11/71 District officers; safali file (Buruli! ADM 9/1-Vol-2) 31 1 HOIMA B ADMIN 15/6/67 17/2/70 Hoima town council-General (Mun.