Boubon

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Location of Boubon in Niger

Boubon is a village in the rural municipality of Karma , Niger .

The fishing village of Boubon is located on the Niger River northwest of the capital Niamey , from which it can be reached by road and by pirogue . Numerous hippos live in front of Boubon .

The village was founded around 1340 by a Songhai group. At the beginning of the 17th century, Zarma settled the place. In the 19th century Boubon belonged to the emirate of Gwandu , which in turn was part of the Sokoto Caliphate . In 2003 the International de la Mode en Afrique fashion festival took place in Boubon and in 2007 it was one of the venues for the first edition of the Pripalo open-air cultural festival under the direction of Achirou Wagé . The village was badly affected by the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , when 2317 residents were classified as disaster victims.

Boubon had 4,423 inhabitants in 589 households in the 1988 census and 5,300 inhabitants in 676 households in the 2001 census. At the 2012 census, the population was 1,829 in 261 households.

On the outskirts there is a small Friday mosque a long way from the settlements . The mosque dates back to 1947 and covers an area of ​​260 square meters that is gently sloping. The surrounding plantings consist of niece trees . The prayer room building of the mosque is designed as a pronounced longitudinal structure and has no courtyard. The mihrab -Vorbau decorated cuboid with Eckzinnen. The outer walls are unadorned and not structured. The large windows are protected by sheet metal shutters. There are entrances on all sides. There is also a high Adhān platform on the south side . On the west side there is a shade roof over four free pillars. The interior has 13 transversal aisles, which are supported by an irregularly distributed multitude of supports. In the southeast corner there is a minbar pedestal.

The market day is Wednesday. In addition to fish and rice from the region, pottery made in the village is sold.

  • Views of Boubon

  • River bank

  • Mosque and water tower

  • Street scene

  • pottery

  • Pottery market

literature

  • Binta Salam dite Salamatou Mahamane Labo: Cones de déjection. Dynamique et potentialité agricole, cas des basins versant de Boubon et de Gorou Kirey . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.

Web links

Commons : Boubon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 76 and 85.
  2. ↑ Abdou Idrissa: Alfa Mahaman Diobo . In: Kimba Idrissa (ed.): Niger. Les intellectuels, l'État et la société . CODESRIA, Dakar 2016, ISBN 978-2-86978-708-7 , pp. 46 .
  3. ↑ FIMA 2003 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Festival International de la Mode Africaine, accessed January 15, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fima-africa.com
  4. ↑ Ibrahim A. Tikiré: Lancement du festival Pripalo. In: Niger Diaspora. July 19, 2007, accessed October 23, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  6. ↑ 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. 212 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  7. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  8. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 456 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  9. ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 340 and 348 .
  10. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 116 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 36 '  N , 1 ° 56'  E