Center Culturel Franco-Nigerien de Zinder

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The Center Culturel Franco-Nigerien de Zinder (CCFN) is a French - Nigerien cultural center in the city of Zinder in Niger.

Area and offers

The Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien de Zinder is located in the city center in the Zinder I arrondissement . The area includes, among other things, an open-air theater with 300 seats, a media library with around 15,000 documents and a sound recording studio. Attached to the actual cultural center is a training center for the French language , which also offers courses on the DELF-DALF program . There is also a small artists' village on the premises of the training center.

The CCFN plays an important role in the city's cultural life. Events from areas such as theater, music, dance, cinema, visual arts and fashion take place here. Over 100,000 visitors were recorded in 2018. The much-visited public media library is one of the most important in all of Niger. Young Nigerian rap musicians in particular are supported with performance opportunities and the sound recording studio.

administration

The Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien de Zinder is a subsidiary of the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien Jean Rouch located in the capital Niamey . Both cultural centers are jointly subordinate to the Nigerian Ministry of Culture and the French Foreign Ministry . They are financed by both states and manage their budget autonomously. In 2019 the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien de Zinder had ten employees.

history

The Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien de Zinder goes back to a library of the French Embassy in Niger and was administratively attached to the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien Jean Rouch in Niamey in 1993.

During violent riots in response to the publication of a Mohammed caricature in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , the building of the media library with 20,000 documents was destroyed by arson on January 16, 2015. Including the damage to two vehicles, the property damage amounted to more than 500 million CFA francs . The newly built and stocked media library was opened on November 27, 2017 in the presence of the Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou and the French Ambassador Marcel Escure .

literature

  • Michel Boccara: Le Center culturel franco-nigérien . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 148-149 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CCFN de Zinder. Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien Jean Rouch, accessed on March 30, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Le Center culturel franco-nigérien de Zinder. Ambassade de France à Niamey, December 26, 2019, accessed on March 31, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 221-222 .
  4. ↑ Le Center culturel franco-nigérien Jean Rouch. Ambassade de France à Niamey, September 30, 2019, accessed on March 31, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Michel Boccara: Le Center culturel franco-nigérien . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 148-149 .
  6. ↑ Le Center Culturel Franco-Nigerien de Zinder sera bientôt réhabilité. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, April 19, 2016, accessed March 31, 2020 (French).
  7. ^ Zinder: inauguration de la médiathèque du Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien par le Président Issoufou Mahamadou. In: IciNiger. 2017, accessed on March 31, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 48 ′ 15.4 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 25.1 ″  E