Dan Kori (Kanan-Bakaché)

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Location of Dan Kori in Niger

Dan Kori (also: Dankori ) is a village in the rural community of Kanan-Bakaché in Niger .

The village, led by a traditional local chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located about 15 kilometers east of the municipal capital Kanan-Bakaché. The rural community is part of the Mayahi department in the Maradi region . The departmental capital Mayahi is located around 32 kilometers west of Dan Kori. A country road leads south from Dan Kori to the city of Tessaoua, about 16 kilometers away .

Cover of the Milanese magazine Corriere Illustrato della Domenica from September 3, 1899 with an illustration of the death of Jean-François Klobb in Dan Kori

Dan Kori 1899 was the scene of a sensational incident in the course of a colonial scandal applicable French Mission Voulet-Chanoine . The French officer Jean-François Klobb had the task of stopping the runaway military expedition , which was led by officers Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine . Klobb reached the mission on July 14, 1899 in Dan Kori, where he was shot on the orders of Voulet. Voulet's open insubordination towards France, which happened on the French national holiday of all places , went down in history as the "Drama of Dan Kori". Klobb's body was only recovered on December 8, 1899 by the Foureau-Lamy mission in Dan Kori and brought to Zinder .

On December 5, 1958, violent clashes broke out in Dan Kori between supporters of the rival parties PPN-RDA and Sawaba . The unrest was fueled by an ancient conflict over the post of mayor, and left a dozen injured and property damage. Dan Kori remained a Sawaba stronghold for a few months until the PPN-RDA took over power there as well.

At the 2012 census, Dan Kori had 5902 residents who lived in 578 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 3,972 in 480 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 2,242 in 289 households.

literature

  • Paul Joalland: Le drame de Dankori. Mission Voulet-Chanoine, Mission Joalland-Meynier . 2nd Edition. Nouvelles Éditions Argo, Paris 1930.

Web links

Commons : Dan Kori (Kanan-Bakaché)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 281 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Ute Ritz-Müller: Memory culture of the Mosi of Tenkodogo (Burkina Faso). Guide function of fictional royal tombs as memorials of the history of power . In: Wolfgang Reinhard (Hrsg.): Krumme Touren. Anthropology of communicative detours . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77572-0 , p. 127-128 .
  3. ↑ 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]).
  4. ^ Raoul Gautier: Documents scientifiques de la Mission Saharienne (Mission Foureau-Lamy, 1898–1900), par F. Foureau, 1903–1905 . Book review. In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de geographie . No. 47 , 1908, pp. 126–127 ( persee.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  5. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 271, 288-289 .
  6. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  7. ↑ 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. 191 ( 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

Coordinates: 13 ° 55 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E