Amadou Madougou

This article deals with the politician Amadou Madougou, for an officer with a similar name see Amadou Madougou Wonkoye .

Amadou Madougou (* 1941 in Libore ) is a Nigerien politician .

Life

After primary school, Amadou Madougou attended the teachers' college in Tahoua from 1956 to 1960 and the normal school in Zinder from 1960 to 1964 , from which he graduated with a baccalaureate . He then did an educational training at the regional center of UNESCO in Bangui in the Central African Republic until 1965 .

Madougou was a professor at the Collège d'enseignement général in Agadez from 1965 to 1967 . He then trained as a school inspector at the École normal supérieure de Saint-Cloud in France . As such, he worked in Diffa from 1970 and in Magaria from 1971 . From 1973 to 1976 he worked as the principal of the normal school in Tahoua. In 1976 he became director of the Ministry of Education. He was a member of numerous committees, such as the Council of Abdou Moumouni University and the Board of Directors of the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien in Niamey .

Amadou Madougou was appointed State Secretary for Education in the government in 1985. He served as Minister of Education from 1987 to 1988 and Minister of Public Service, Labor and Vocational Training from 1988 to 1989. At the founding congress of the Unity Party, the National Development Movement, in 1989, Madougou was appointed a member of the party leadership, where he took on the role of Secretary for Foreign Relations. In December 1989 he became Minister of the Interior . During a student demonstration in Niamey on February 9, 1990, the security forces shot the demonstrators as they passed the Kennedy Bridge . Several fatalities were the result. Madougou was then dismissed as Minister of the Interior after only 72 days in office.

He subsequently worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Education until he retired in early 1997. From April to November 1997, Prime Minister Amadou Boubacar Cissé took him out of retirement as his head of cabinet. Then Madougou worked, among other things, as a novelist, he was also for a time mayor of his home town Liboré.

Works

• Kokari ou la lutte silencieuse de l'enseignant . L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4805-8 (first edition: Niamey 1998).
• Le fils de l'ambassadeur . L'Harmattan, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2-7475-6810-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 449-451 .
2. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 421 .
3. ↑ Amadou Madougou, former Mayor of Libore visits the P4K team in Toronto! (No longer available online.) Pencils for Kids, August 29, 2013, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 25, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.