Gorouol (Niger)

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Rural municipality of Gorouol
Gorouol rural community (Niger)
Rural municipality of Gorouol
Rural municipality of Gorouol
Coordinates 14 ° 48 '  N , 0 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 48 '  N , 0 ° 22'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Tillabéri
department Téra
ISO 3166-2 NE-6
Residents 66,276 (2012)

Gorouol (also: Goroual ) is a rural community in the Téra department in Niger .

geography

Gorouol is located in the southern Sahel zone and is the westernmost municipality of Niger. It borders on the neighboring state of Burkina Faso in the west and on the neighboring state of Mali in the north . The neighboring communities in Niger are Ayérou in the east and Bankilaré in the south. Gorouol is located on the Niger River and the Gorouol River , after which the municipality is named. Gorouol is a Fulfulde word that means "watercourse".

There are 39 villages, 54 hamlets and five nomad camps in the municipality. The main town of the rural municipality is the village of Kolmane .

history

The pearls of Yasaan are terracotta pieces of jewelery in the form of small pearls, which date from the time between 640 and 1170 and were found in large numbers near the village of Yatakala in the municipality of Gorouol.

The rulers of Gorouol were followers of the dynasty Askia of 1591 defunct Songhai Eich . According to tradition, the first ruler of Gorouol known by name was called Fonékori. His successors were Alzouleyni, Manga, Arkoussou and Foni, under whose rule Gorouol waged wars against the Fulbe and Tuareg . Foni was murdered at the instigation of one of his sons. His eldest son Alazi emerged victorious from the conflicts over the successor to Foni. After the conquest of the village of Kolmane by the Tenguéréguédech, a subgroup of the Tuareg, Alazi made peace with the Tenguéréguédech leader Elou. The reign of Alazi's son and successor Moussa at the end of the 19th century coincided with the arrival of the French . Gorouol came under French military administration in 1899 as part of the newly created Sinder district ( cercle de Sinder ). In 1905 the place was attached to the new military territory of Niger ( Territoire militaire du Niger ).

The rural community of Gorouol emerged from the canton of Gorouol / Yatakala in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. In the course of this, Bankilaré was detached from Gorouol as a separate rural community. Yatakala has been a village in the Gorouol municipality since then. During the hunger crisis in Niger in 2005, Gorouol was one of the hardest hit places. Here the population had less than one meal a day available. In the flood disaster in West and Central Africa in 2010 , 6,097 residents of Gorouol were classified as victims of the disaster, more than in any other municipality in the Téra department.

population

At the 2012 census, Gorouol had 66,276 inhabitants. At the 2001 census, the population was 48,570. The village of Wanzerbé in the municipality of Gorouol is one of the main settlement areas of the Songhai in Niger, along with the city of Tillabéri and the municipality of Méhana .

Culture and sights

There are two Roman Catholic churches in Gorouol : the Church of St. John the Baptist in the village of Dolbel and the Church of the Assumption of Christ in the village of Fantio. The Dolbel-Fantio parish, part of the Niamey Archdiocese , was founded in 1957.

The filmmaker Jean Rouch portrayed life and customs in Gorouol in several short documentaries. His films Les Magiciens de Wanzerbé (1949) and Wanzerbé (1968) were made in the village of that name. In Koli koli (1966) he showed young hunters at work in the area around the village of Yatakala.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gorouol is located in a zone where agropastoralism prevails. The national road 5 connects the municipality with the departmental capital Téra .

Personalities

literature

  • Seyni Abdou: Développement local: Analysis-diagnostic des terroirs de Belleykoire et Teguey (Arrondissement de Tera) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
  • Jean Marc Bellot: Les femmes dans les sociétés pastorales du Gorouol . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . tape 33 , no. 130 (April – June), 1980, pp. 145-165 .
  • Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Partis et dynamiques politiques locales dans les futures communes rurales de Bankilaré et du Gorouol (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 28 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou April 2004 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Les pouvoirs locaux dans le Gorouol (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 20 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2004 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Les premiers pas de la commune de Gorouol (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 69 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou November 2006 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Seyni Zoumari Issa: Le Soney (Songhay) après la conquête marocaine, 1592–1900, formation des provinces historiques (Tera, Gooro (Goruol), Namaro, Kokoru, Gothey). Contribution à l'histoire du Soney post-impérial et précolonial (République du Niger) . Dissertation. University of Paris 1, Paris 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 21 .
  2. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 503–505 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-014 on 11 June 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux . Republic of Niger.
  4. ↑ Audrey Boucksom: Arts "touristiques" en Afrique et consommateurs occidentaux. Le cas de l'artisanat d'art au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2009, p. 106 ( tel.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed April 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 75-76 .
  6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 234-235 .
  7. ↑ Niger Food Crisis 2005: Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1 . OCHA , July 26, 2005; Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  8. ↑ situation of the populations besoins 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. Center d'Information et de Communication, September 23, 2010; accessed on March 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cic.ne
  9. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 8, 2010 (French). 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.stat-niger.org
  10. ^ Tunde Adeleke: Songhay . Rosen, New York 1996, ISBN 0-8239-1986-2 , pp. 11 .
  11. ↑ Saint Jean Baptiste Dolbel - Fantio. Eglise Catholique au Niger, accessed on August 9, 2019 (French).
  12. ^ Paul Henley: The Adventure of the Real. Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-32714-3 , pp. 372, 378, 380 .
  13. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. (PDF; 2.6 MB) Save the Children UK, London 2009, p. 8.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk