KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVES Kabale District Archives
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KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVES Kabale District Archives The Kabale District Archives (KDA), housed in the Kabale District Offices on Makanga Hill, comprise local administrative files for Kabale (formerly Kigezi) district. The majority of the collection’s 7,500+ files contain correspondence and district-level reports that circulated between local and central governments during both the Protectorate and postcolonial periods. As such, these records address a broad range of topics, from hospitals to provincial elections, agricultural experiment stations to tsetse fly eradication, land disputes to intelligence reports. Because Kabale borders the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the KDA also boasts a significant if small sub-set on matters concerning Belgian-British colonial relations, trade, migration, inter-territorial adjudication and extradition. Scope: The earliest records date to 1913, three years after British Protectorate authorities established the district; the bulk of the collection, however, spans the late Protectorate and early Independence periods (1950-1979). Researchers should note that the name and political boundaries of the District have changed over time. During the Protectorate (1910-1961) and early Independence periods (1961-73), the District was formally known as Kigezi. It was divided into five ssaza, or counties: Bufumbira, Rukiga, Ndorwa, Ruzhumbura (Rujumbura), and Kinkizi. In 1974, the Amin government, as part of a countrywide redistricting program, combined Kigezi and Ankole Districts to make the Southern Province; as a result, a handful of Ankole District files may be found in KDA (most of the Ankole District collection was destroyed in the 1979 Uganda-Tanzania War). In 1980, the Obote II administration abolished the ten provinces erected under Amin, and Kabale Town became the capitol for the newly created Kabale District. Organization: The history of the KDA is difficult to determine. Most files have two or more file numbers inscribed on the covers, and the 2013 cataloguing team found evidence of at least three filing systems. In 2002, a team from the Records Office (possibly comprised of records management students) organized the archive into 250 bundles of thirteen files each, and attached a list of file names to each bundle. Copies of each sheet were compiled into a paper handlist. The 2013 cataloguing team used this handlist as a basic guide to ensure no files were lost during the rehousing, reshelving, and cataloguing process. The KDA is now organized into one main collection and sub-divided into seventeen categories per the instructions of the District Records Officer: Administration; Agriculture; Community Development; Education; Finance; Health; Human Resources; Immigration; Justice, Law, and Order; Lands; Miscellaneous; News and Communications; Population; Public Works; Resettlement; Trade & Industry; Wildlife and Forestry. These categories are recent inventions. A reconstruction of the KDA’s historical organization has not been possible to date due to constraints of time, material, and personnel. The KDA was catalogued from June-August 2013 by Yanni Gu, Riley Linebaugh, Abigail Meert, Andrew Shin, and Ashley Rockenbach (University of Michigan); Alasdair O’Hare and Ngala Chome (British Institute of East Africa); Faith Muhereza (Makerere University); and student interns from Kabale University. KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVE CATALOGUE BOX ALTERN. OPENING CLOSING CATEGORY REF. NO. YEAR FILE NAME NO. NO. DATE DATE Administration 1 36 29/131 1932 Annual Report by District 1-Jan-1932 31-Dec-1932 Commissioner on Kigezi District - For the Year 1932 Administration 1 29/131 36 1933 Annual Report by District 3-Jan-1933 8-Dec-1977 Commissioner on Kigezi District for the Year 1932 Administration 1 106 1946 Pass Book of Post Office 30-May-1946 1-Apr-1947 Administration 1 ADM 002 1956 Kabale Town Planning 13-Jan-1956 23-Sep-1958 Administration 1 ADM 002 1956 Kabale Town Planning 20-Apr-1956 23-Sep-1958 Administration 1 ADM 011 1959 Kigezi District General Complaints 28-Oct-1959 14-Jun-1979 Administration 1 ADM 034 1959 Kigezi District General Complaints 28-Oct-1959 14-Jun-1979 Administration 1 ADM 001 1967 Staff Allocations 22-Jul-1967 6-May-1975 Administration 1 ADM 001 1967 Staff Allocations 12-Jul-1967 6-May-1975 Administration 1 ADM 003 1976 Health Officer Kabale Town 10-Sep-1976 10-May-1978 Council Administration 1 ADM 003 1976 Health Officer Kabale Town 10-Sep-1976 7-Jun-1978 Council Administration 1 ADM 004 1982 Government Vehicles 25-Nov-1982 24-Sep-1992 Administration 1 ADM 004 1982 Government Vehicles 25-Nov-1982 24-Sep-1992 Administration 2 MUN 1i 1640 1946 Town Planning 28-Jul-1946 28-Mar-1980 Administration 2 ADM 22i 2488 1950 Legislative Council 12-Nov-1950 9-Jun-1953 Administration 2 MUN 4/1iii 1196 1957 Subsidiary Correspondence 25-Jul-1957 15-Oct-1959 Administration 2 ADM 20D 1100 1961 General Purposes Committee 21-Jul-1961 19-Feb-1980 District Council Page 1 of 499 KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVE CATALOGUE BOX ALTERN. OPENING CLOSING CATEGORY REF. NO. YEAR FILE NAME NO. NO. DATE DATE Administration 2 ADM 4/1 614 1968 District Team Minutes Of Other 8-Apr-1968 22-Oct-1968 Districts Administration 2 ADM 4/1ii 619 1971 District Planning Committee 22-Jan-1971 9-Jun-1971 Minutes For Other Districts Administration 2 ADM 4/18 171 1975 District Commissioner 24-Jun-1975 21-Jul-1980 Bundibugyo Minutes (DTPC) Administration 2 ADM 12/2 225 1975 Provincial team Planning 18-Feb-1975 9-Jan-1978 Committee Nile Province Administration 2 ADM 14 292 1975 Kigezi District Annual Report 28-Nov-1975 5-Mar-1979 Administration 3 139 1074 1930 District Officer Tours 17-Mar-1930 25-Mar-1957 Administration 3 ADM 3i 3 1948 District Commissioners' 27-Aug-1948 25-Jul-1994 Conference Administration 3 MUN 2i 1643 1953 Township Boards Kabale 30-Jun-1953 18-Feb-1959 Township Authority Administration 3 MUN 4/2 1655 1955 Kisoro Township 22-Apr-1955 4-Dec-1956 Administration 3 MUN 4/2iv 1659 1956 Kisoro Township 19-Jan-1956 4-Sep-1959 Administration 3 ADM 22/C2i 2499 1961 LegCo Elections 1962 Notices, 2-Nov-1961 7-Jun-1962 Instructions And major Correspondences Administration 3 MUN 4iii 1649 1962 Towns 24-Jul-1962 23-Oct-1964 Administration 3 15 1962 Candidates Polling Agents 21-Mar-1962 28-Mar-1962 Administration 3 ADM 12/8 704 1975 Provincial Team Planning 10-Apr-1975 10-May-1976 Committee Eastern Province Administration 3 ADM 017 1982 Kabale District - Work 15-Nov-1982 13-Feb-1990 Suspensions, Transfers, and Reinstatement Requests Administration 3 276 Records of Chiefs Kinkizi County Page 2 of 499 KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVE CATALOGUE BOX ALTERN. OPENING CLOSING CATEGORY REF. NO. YEAR FILE NAME NO. NO. DATE DATE Administration 4 ADM 006 1929 Rwanda 23-Nov-1929 24-Nov-1932 Administration 4 ADM 007 1933 Wage Disputes 18-Sep-1933 12-Sep-1935 Administration 4 ADM 005 1951 Administrators' Safaris 13-Apr-1951 16-Nov-1992 Administration 4 ADM 009 1951 Annual Reports 13-Jan-1951 12-Feb-1953 Administration 4 2592 1968 Flimsy File for June 1968 1-Jun-1968 29-Jun-1968 Administration 4 ADM 011 1968 Government Staff 22-Jan-1968 28-Jul-1970 Administration 4 ADM 14/2 386/2834 1975 Departmental Monthly Reports 5-Aug-1975 30-Mar-1976 Administration 4 ADM 010 1980 Rationing 20-May-1981 21-Jan-1980 Administration 4 ADM 008 1988 Estimates 1-Jan-1988 31-Dec-1988 Administration 5 MIS12/10 1960 Complaints Bufumbira County 17-Feb-1960 27-Oct-1987 Administration 5 521 h/67 281 1930 General Complaints 29-Dec-1930 9-Dec-1935 Administration 5 63/1ii 2411 1935 Complaints General Natives 17-Oct-1935 14-May-1940 Affairs Administration 5 ADM 20b 2483 1955 Disputes For Elections Of Lower 21-Nov-1955 19-Mar-1956 Councils Administration 5 ADM 10 1090 1970 Kigezi District Annual reports 30-Jan-1970 27-Mar-1975 Administration 5 ADM 14/2xv 680 1971 Departmental Monthly Report 12-Mar-1971 21-Oct-1971 Administration 5 ADM 019 1977 Kabale District Monthly Reports 15-Mar-1977 8-Feb-1978 Administration 5 ADM 018 1986 Kabale District Monthly Reports 31-Oct-1986 28-Oct-1987 Administration 6 ADM 14/1 648 1953 Departmental Annual Reports 2-Jul-1953 26-Feb-1954 Administration 6 ADM 029 1957 District commissioner Report 30-Nov-1957 25-Jul-1958 Other Districts Administration 6 1960 Election Circulars 25-Nov-1960 8-Jan-1962 Administration 6 MIS 1 226 1971 Visitors 17-Aug-1971 15-Jun-1973 Administration 6 ADM 4/1 2645 1971 Minutes of the District Team And 5-Mar-1971 18-Aug-1971 Planning Committee Other Districts Page 3 of 499 KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVE CATALOGUE BOX ALTERN. OPENING CLOSING CATEGORY REF. NO. YEAR FILE NAME NO. NO. DATE DATE Administration 6 ADM 12/2 705 1975 Southern Province Departmental 11-Mar-1975 28-Mar-1977 Monthly Reports Administration 6 ADM 12/3 869 1975 Provincial team Planning 25-Apr-1975 26-Oct-1978 Committee North Buganda Province Administration 6 ADM 4/4 1977 District commissioner South Teso 25-Oct-1977 4-Jan-1980 Minutes Administration 6 ADM 14/2 1050 1980 Departmental Monthly Report 10-Oct-1980 31-Oct-1981 Administration 6 ADM 028 1982 District Commissioner's Office 1-Jul-1982 30-Sep-1982 Monthly Reports + correspondences Administration 6 ADM 14/2 1992 Departmental Monthly Report 10-Aug-1992 2-Mar-1994 Administration 7 115 2109 1930 Native Affairs Relation with 29-Dec-1930 12-Jun-1940 Ankole District Administration 7 55B 2012/215 1947 R.C. Mission Special Matters 13-Nov-1931 25-Aug-1947 Arising Administration 7 ADM 024 1954 Kabale District Meetings and 22-Jan-1954 18-Feb-1981 Planning Administration 7 ADM 026 1956 Western Province - Annual Report 13-Jan-1956 28-May-1957 Administration 7 ADM 2472 1965 1964/1965 Kigezi District Council 25-Jan-1965 27-Jan-1966 20/C2/Bi Elections Claims Administration 7 ADM 2481/166 1965 Kigezi District Council - New 7-Apr-1965 21-Jan-1966 20/C2iv Election 1964/1965 Administration 7 K/MIS 5/2 1966 Council of Women 7-Jan-1966 31-Aug-1982 Administration 7 ADM 14/Aiii 639 1969 Annual Reports - Other Districts 23-Oct-1969 14-May-1971 Administration 7 ADM 14/1 2725 1973 Departmental Annual Reports 15-Jan-1973 26-Jun-1973 Page 4 of 499 KABALE DISTRICT ARCHIVE CATALOGUE BOX ALTERN.