Fandou Béri (Hamdallaye)

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Location of Fandou Béri in Niger

Fandou Béri is a village in the rural parish of Hamdallaye in Niger .

Fandou Béri is about 16 kilometers east of the village of Hamdallaye, the capital of the rural municipality of the same name, which belongs to the department of Kollo in the Tillabéri region. North of Fandou Béri rises a landscape- defining Ferricrete plateau.

The place name means "great way". The first Zarma from the Dallol Bosso settled here in the 19th century . During the French colonial period, there was a base for troops and recruits in Fandou Béri. The village was hit by the great famine of 1931. In the 1930s, only four families lived here for a while until more Zarma families followed suit. In the 1970s, Fulbe also settled .

At the 2012 census, Fandou Béri had 1,162 inhabitants who lived in 149 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 676 in 72 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 595 in 75 households.

About 90 percent are Zarma, about 10 percent Fulbe. Both ethnic groups are active in agriculture. There are pearl millet , cowpea , sorghum , marshmallow , peanut and sesame grown. Fulbe also operate hiking pastures . Trade with the capital Niamey and the capital of Hamdallaye have been important to the local economy since the beginning of the 20th century. The Fandou Béri market has existed since 1973. There is a school and a mosque in the village. Through the south of the settlement a secondary road, over which one northwest to 11 kilometers of road, the National Highway 25 the village and southeast to 28 kilometers of road Diantchandou reached. The side street was laid out in colonial times.

literature

  • Henny Osbahr: Livelihood strategies and soil fertility at Fandou Béri, southwestern Niger . Thesis (Ph. D.). University of London, London 2001 ( discovery.ucl.ac.uk [PDF]).
  • Andrew Warren, Simon Batterbury, Henny Osbahr: Sustainability and Sahelian soils: evidence from Niger . In: The Geographical Journal . Vol. 167, No. 4 , December 2001, ISSN  0016-7398 , p. 324-341 ( citeseerx.ist.psu.edu [PDF]).
  • Andrew Warren, Henny Osbahr, Simon Batterbury, Adrian Chappell: Indigenous views of soil erosion at Fandou Béri, southwestern Niger . In: Geoderma . Vol. 111, No. 3-4 , February 2003, ISSN  0016-7061 , p. 439-456 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 454 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c Henny Osbahr: Livelihood strategies and soil fertility at Fandou Béri, southwestern Niger . Thesis (Ph. D.). University of London, London 2001, pp. 93 and 99 ( discovery.ucl.ac.uk [PDF; accessed April 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Neumann: Thirty Years Through Africa. Memoirs 1959–1990 . Text tape. Self-published, Bärensprung 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-015854-4 , p. 333 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Andrew Warren, Simon Batterbury, Henny Osbahr: Sustainability and Sahelian soils: evidence from Niger . In: The Geographical Journal . Vol. 167, No. 4 , December 2001, ISSN  0016-7398 , p. 328–329 ( citeseerx.ist.psu.edu [PDF; accessed April 4, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Henny Osbahr: Livelihood strategies and soil fertility at Fandou Béri, southwestern Niger . Thesis (Ph. D.). University of London, London 2001, pp. 104 and 109 ( discovery.ucl.ac.uk [PDF; accessed April 4, 2018]).
  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. 210 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]).

Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 33'  E