Adamou Mayaki

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Adamou Hassane Mayaki (born June 1919 in Filingué ; † 2003 ; also Adamou Assane Mayaki , called Ghazi and Kassari ) was a Nigerien politician and diplomat .

Life

Adamou Mayaki belonged to the Zarma ethnic group . His father Gado Namalaya was the head of the canton of Kourfeye . Adamou Mayaki attended elementary schools in Niamey from 1927 to 1937 and completed an apprenticeship as an engineer for agricultural techniques in Bambey in Senegal in 1942 , which he had started in 1937 at the normal school in Katibougou near Bamako . He then worked as a supervisory officer for the Agriculture Department in Maradi . Mayaki initiated the founding of the Maradi section of the Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA) in 1947 and became its section president . In the same year he tried, with the support of members of the Nigerien Overseas Territory from the east of the Niger overseas territory, for a seat in the parliamentary assembly of the Union française , but without success. Mayaki married in Maradi. His wife was of half Nigerien, half Corsican descent. In 1951 his son Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki was born, who was Prime Minister of Niger in the 1990s.

Adamou Mayaki subsequently became a party member of the Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS). In the elections to the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1952 , he was elected MP in the constituency of Maradi. Although he was considered an outsider within the party, he was elected to the parliamentary assembly of the Union française on October 10, 1953. In November 1955 Mayaki left the crisis-ridden UNIS with his supporters and took part in the founding of the Nigerien Action Block (BNA), which one year later was absorbed into the Sawaba party. The elections for the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1957 were won by Sawaba, who then formed a Nigerian government, the Conseil de gouvernement , for the first time under the chairmanship of Djibo Bakary . Adamou Mayaki became Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. The election of the government by the Territorial Assembly on May 18, 1957, however, boycotted Mayaki in protest, as he had expected a seat in the Grand Conseil of French West Africa or the post of finance minister. The collaboration between Adamou Mayaki and Djibo Bakary was marked by conflicts. In November 1957 Mayaki tried, among other things, with Mouddour Zakara to found his own faction of the Sawaba mother party, the African Socialist Movement (MSA), which was supposed to represent the interests of the chefferie traditionnelle (the pre-colonial political leaders). Mayaki and his supporters saw this endangered by the policies of the governor and head of government Paul Bordier . As a result, Mayaki was excluded from the MSA due to a lack of party discipline. However, he remained a member of the government and on September 23, 1958, instead of being Minister of Agriculture, he became Niger's first Minister of the Interior .

The constitutional referendum in Niger in 1958 ended in favor of Niger remaining with France. As a result, the anti-French Sawaba was smashed and the pro-French PPN-RDA formed under Hamani Diori as a unity party . Adamou Mayaki returned to the PPN-RDA. He was elected in the elections for the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1958 on the PPN-RDA list in the constituency of Maradi for a deputy and on October 18, 1959 appointed Minister of Economics and Planning in the government of Hamani Diori. He was arrested in July 1960. He was charged with receiving a telegram from former Sawaba leader Djibo Bakary. Mayaki found a powerful advocate in Interior Minister Yansambou Maïga Diamballa and was released in December 1960. In the meantime, Niger had become independent from France. Hamani Diori entrusted Adamou Mayaki with the portfolio of the Minister of Industry and Commerce on December 31, 1960. Mayaki tried at least until the spring of 1962 to stay in contact with the Sawaba supporters in exile, in particular with Abdoulaye Mamani . In March 1962 he was doing agitation work for the banned Sawaba in the cities of Birni-N'Konni and Madaoua . Regardless of this, President Diori appointed him Foreign Minister on June 25, 1963 . Diori, who feared an assassination attempt by the Sawaba and distrusted Mayaki as a former member of Sawaba, had his foreign minister arrested a second time in December 1964. Rehabilitated, Mayaki was sent abroad in early 1966: he became Niger's ambassador to the United States . In 1968 he was also Niger's ambassador to the United Nations in New York . He held both offices until 1970. He took over in the year 1968, the head of the UN mission to monitor the referendum in Equatorial Guinea ( Mission for the Supervision of the Referendum and Elections in Equatorial Guinea ) on August 6, 1968. Back in Niger Mayaki was from April 1970 to June 1971 Prefect of the Dosso Department . In February 1972, he began his work as General Manager of the national transport company Société Nationale des Transports Nigériens (SNTN). President Hamani Diori was overthrown in a military coup on April 15, 1974. Seyni Kountché became the new ruler . Adamou Mayaki was dismissed as SNTN general manager on June 30, 1974 and retired on January 1, 1975. Like almost the entire political elite under Hamani Diori, he was arrested in January and sent to prison again.

Adamou Mayaki's three stays in prison led to health problems. Most recently, seriously ill and suffering from a leg infection, he died in the summer of 2003.

Fonts

  • Les partis politiques nigériens de 1946 à 1958. Documents et témoignages . Imprimerie nationale du Niger, Niamey 1991.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944-1960). In: Autrepart. No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), p. 58.
  2. ↑ Finn Fuglestad : Les Hauka. Une interprétation historique . In: Cahiers d'Études africaines . Volume 15, No. 58 , 1975, pp. 203 ( persee.fr [accessed May 13, 2017]).
  3. ^ A b c d e Adamou Mayaki: Les partis politiques nigériens de 1946 à 1958. Documents et témoignages . Imprimerie nationale du Niger, Niamey 1991, p. 6.
  4. ↑ a b Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 62-63.
  5. ↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 74-75.
  6. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 882.
  7. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944-1960). In: Autrepart. No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), p. 47.
  8. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 271.
  9. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944 to 1960). In: Autrepart. No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), pp. 50–51.
  10. ↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , p. 228.
  11. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 149.
  12. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944-1960). In: Autrepart. No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), p. 56.
  13. ↑ Aboubakari Kio Koudize: Une génération de bâtisseurs . In: Le Sahel . December 19, 2012, p. 7 .
  14. ^ A b c Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 350.
  15. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 363.
  16. ↑ a b Klaas van Walraven: The Learning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 386.
  17. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 778.
  18. ↑ a b Klaas van Walraven: The Learning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 899.
  19. ^ Diplomatic Representation for Niger. US Department of State, January 18, 2012, accessed July 2, 2013 .
  20. ^ Mark J. Mullenbach: Sub-Saharan Africa Region. (No longer available online.) University of Central Arkansas, archived from the original March 6, 2009 ; accessed on July 2, 2013 .
  21. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , p. 848.
personal data
SURNAME Mayaki, Adamou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayaki, Adamou Hassane (full name); Mayaki, Adamou Assane (full name); Ghazi (nickname); Kassari (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Filingué
DATE OF DEATH 2003