Boma (administrative division)

A boma is a lowest-level administrative division, below payams, in South Sudan. Equivalent fifth-level divisions elsewhere are described as village, block or ward.[1]

Bomas vary in size and typically contain many individual villages.[2] In Bomas, authority is usually divided between the Boma administrators who are appointed by the government and the traditional chief appointed by a council of elders.[3] As of 2009, South Sudan's 514 payams had an average of 4.2 bomas each.[4]

Etymology

The term Boma originated from the town of Boma in Jonglei State, the first place captured by the Sudan People's Liberation Army at the start of its 1983 insurgency.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Deng, Lual (2013). Power of creative reasoning : the ideas and vision of John Garang. pp. 48, 140. ISBN 147596028X.
  2. ^ Garang, John Mabior (1981). Identifying, Selecting and Implementing Rural Development Strategies for Socio-economic Development in the Jonglei Projects Area, Southern Region, Sudan (PhD dissertation). Iowa State University.
  3. ^ Aalen, Lovise (2019). "The paradox of federalism and decentralisation in South Sudan: An instrument and an obstacle for peace". Sudan Brief. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  4. ^ Klopper, Hester; Uys, Leana (2012). The state of nursing and nursing education in Africa : a country-by-country review. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International. ISBN 193547684X.
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