Barwa (Niger)

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Location of Barwa in Niger

Barwa is a village in the rural municipality of Bosso in Niger . Alternative spellings are Baroua , Barroua , Barrua , Barruwa , Barua and Baruwa .

The village is located in the extreme southeast of Niger in the Manga landscape on the former west bank of the shrunken Lake Chad . Barwa had 1974 inhabitants in 446 households in the 1988 census, 1,529 inhabitants in 288 households in the 2001 census and 3,292 inhabitants in 611 households in the 2012 census.

Barwa played a role in the European history of the discovery of Africa and in the race for Africa . In 1854, the German African explorer Heinrich Barth provided himself with dried fish as travel provisions before he traveled north to the Sahara . The German Africa explorer Gerhard Rohlfs stopped in Barwa in 1866 and described the place as being surrounded by an earth wall. The Franco-British agreement of August 5, 1890 laid down the border between the spheres of influence of the two colonial powers along an imaginary line between Barwa and Say on the Niger River . The Say Barwa line was abandoned by the Paris Agreement of June 14, 1898, which awarded the Sultanates of Maradi , Tessaoua and Zinder France. The French research and military expedition, Mission Foureau-Lamy, visited Barwa on February 4, 1900.

Barwa is a setting for the adventure novels Les tueurs de serpents (1892) by Armand Dubarry and Vers le Tchad (1897) by Léo Dex .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 44 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento from January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  3. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 30 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  4. ^ Heinrich Barth: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa . Fifth volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 407-408 .
  5. ^ Gerhard Rohlfs : Across Africa: Kauar and the Tebu in the Gutenberg-DE project
  6. ^ Gerhard Rohlfs: Across Africa . K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart / Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-522-60580-2 , chap. 15 (first edition: 1874).
  7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 260 .
  8. ↑ Fernand Foureau : Documents scientifiques de la mission saharienne. Mission Foureau-Lamy d'Alger au Congo par le Tchad . Atlas (cartographer: Verlet-Hanus). Masson, Paris 1905 ( jubilotheque.upmc.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  9. ^ Daniel Mignot, Jean-Dominique Pénel: Le Niger dans la littérature française . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 25 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 53 '  N , 13 ° 10'  E