Bana (Niger)

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Bana rural community
Bana rural community (Niger)
Bana rural community
Bana rural community
Coordinates 12 ° 3 '  N , 3 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 12 ° 3 '  N , 3 ° 33'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Dosso
department Gaya
ISO 3166-2 NE-3
Residents 18,128 (2012)

Bana is a rural municipality in the department of Gaya in Niger .

geography

Bana lies in the Dendi landscape and in the Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the east . The neighboring communities in Niger are Yélou in the north, Bengou in the south and Gaya in the west. The municipality is divided into eight administrative villages, 18 traditional villages, a hamlet and a camp. The main town of the rural community is the village of Bana.

The large, periodically water-bearing dry valley Dallol Maouri runs through the municipality in a north-south direction . The Forêt classée de Bana is a 736 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Bana. It was placed under protection in 1955.

history

Bana was founded by some Tyenga families under their leader Abdou Bello in the early 17th century . The village of Toungategui in the municipal area of ​​Bana is a Zarma foundation in the 17th century. The French colonial administration established a canton in Bana at the beginning of the 20th century . The rural community of Bana emerged from the canton of Bana in a nationwide administrative reform in 2002, the territory of which was divided between the rural communities of Bana and Bengou.

population

At the 2001 census, Bana had 13,293 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 18,128.

Economy and Infrastructure

Salt is extracted in Bana. The rural community is also the operator of several weekly markets. Market day in the main town of Bana is Wednesday. The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops .

literature

  • Alkassoum Kadad: Systèmes de production et gestion de la fertilité des sols dans la rôneraie de Gaya (cas du terroir de Bana) . Center Régional d'Enseignement Spécialisé en Agriculture (CRESA), Niamey 1999.
  • Adamou Moumouni: Les pouvoirs locaux à Bana (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 21 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2004 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Adamou Moumouni: Les pouvoirs locaux à Bana et Bengou (2) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 47 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou March 2006 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olivier Walther: Sons of the Soil and Conquerors Who Came on Foot: The Historical Evolution of a West African Border Region . In: African Studies Quarterly . Vol. 13, No. 1 & 2 , 2012, p. 77 ( sites.clas.ufl.edu [PDF; accessed November 4, 2018]).
  2. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
  4. ↑ M. Tiepolo, M. Ali, M. Bacci, S. Braccio, H. Issa, AZ Oumarou: Analyze du risque d'inondation dans les communes de la Région de Dosso au Niger, 1998-2016. (PDF) Projet ANADIA 2.0, report no. 5. Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, 2018, p. 10 , accessed on April 26, 2018 (French).
  5. ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 47.
  7. ↑ Problematique you générale Foncier dans la commune urbaine de Gaya (PDF, 1.4 MB). Website of the development aid organization SNV, published December 2008, accessed on November 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 241.
  9. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 54.
  10. ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French).
  11. ^ Adamou Moumouni: Le pouvoirs locaux à Bana . In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mahamam Tidjani Alou (ed.): Le pouvoirs locaux au Niger. Tome 1: À la veille de la decéntralisation . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , p. 363.
  12. ↑ Olivier Walther: Affaires de patrons. Villes et commerce transfrontalier au Sahel . Peter Lang, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-468-9 , p. 193.
  13. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk