Bouza

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bouza (disambiguation) .

Municipality of Bouza
Municipality of Bouza
Coordinates	14 ° 25 '  N , 6 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 25 '  N , 6 ° 3'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tahoua
department	Bouza
surface	675 km²
Residents	101,445 (2012)
density	150.3  Ew. / km²

Bouza is a municipality and the capital of the Bouza department of the same name in Niger .

geography

The center of the old place in the Sahel is on a hill. In the valley in front of the city center there are several Hausa villages. The municipality is divided into seven districts - Bouza, Bouza Gabass, Bouza Koré, Bouza (Kwaré), Dan Dabi (Quartier), Dougouna and Tchégoumaoua - as well as a rural area with 47 villages and 55 hamlets. The larger rural villages include Garadoumé and Madetta . The neighboring communities of Bouzas are Babankatami , Déoulé and Tabotaki in the north, Karofane in the east, Madaoua and Azarori in the south and Tama in the west.

history

Bouza became the capital of the Bouza district in 1960, the year Niger became independent, from which the Bouza district emerged in 1964 and the Bouza department in 1998.

population

The population consists of Hausa, Tuareg and Fulbe . At the 1977 census, Bouza had 5,290 people, at the 1988 census 5,496 people and at the 2001 census 6,825 people. At the 2012 census, after enlarging the municipal area, the population was 101,445.

Culture and sights

In the center of the village is a mosque of unknown year of construction. It is in a good state of preservation (as of 1986). The entire complex of the mosque, built according to the central Sudanese model with a domed roof , extends over 58 square meters. It has a prayer room building designed as a longitudinal system (with flat roof and central dome). The mihrab -Vorbau is cuboid, the outer walls are divided. There is an Adhān platform on the south side . Pointed battlements are enthroned above the entrances and on the roof corners .

Economy and Infrastructure

The economic cornerstones of the city are agriculture, livestock and trade. The place has a weekly market. The Garadoumé dam was built near the village of Garadoumé in 1968 . Bouza is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). The city is located on National Road 16 , which connects the town with the regional capital Tahoua .

literature

• Tchougoune Mamadou Ari: Etude diagnostique des sols et de la végétation des unités géomorphologiques du bassin versant de Fadara (Bouza / Tahoua) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
• Boubé Arzika: Traitement et conservation des bassins versants. Cas du bassin versant de Bouza . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1989.
• Zeinabou Chaibou Guéro: Stratégies d'adaptation au changement climatique. Cas des éleveurs de Bouza . License. Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 133 .
2. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 335–337 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 19.
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Présentation de la commune de Bouza  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the ANIYA Coopération Décentralisée Niger-France, accessed on January 28, 2012.  
6. ↑ bevoelkerungsstatistik.de: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Bouza , accessed on January 11, 2011.
7. ↑ 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 May 1, 2014 (French). 
8. ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 354 .
9. ↑ Inventaire des petits barrages du Niger . Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), December 1996, p. 9 ( repository.uneca.org [PDF; accessed September 23, 2018]).
10. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.