Firgoune

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Location of Firgoune in Niger

Firgoune (also: Firgoun , Firgoune Goungou ) is a village in the rural municipality of Ayérou in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located on an island in the Niger River . It is located about eight kilometers northwest of the main town of the rural municipality Ayérou, which belongs to the Ayérou department of the same name in the Tillabéri region. In front of the village on the river bank is the hamlet of Firgoune Haoussa.

At the 2012 census, Firgoune had 715 residents who lived in 105 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 895 in 136 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 1,684 in 262 households.

The French filmmaker Jean Rouch made his first film in Firgoune in 1947: the short documentary Au pays des mages noirs shows the hippo hunt and was released as a supporting film for Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli . Rouch later returned to the village repeatedly. In 1948 he documented the initiation of a young Songhai woman into an obsession dance in Initiation à la danse des possédés and in 1952 another hippo hunt in Bataille sur le grand fleuve .

There is a cattle market used for cross-border trade with Mali and a simple health center without its own laboratory and maternity ward in the village. Rice is grown in Firgoune . In 2002, 2.2% of the nation's rice production was generated here.

literature

  • Marthe Fatima Doka: Aménagement hydro-agricole de Firgoun. Etude sociologique . Ministère de l'agriculture et de l'environnement, République du Niger, Niamey February 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 412 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ 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. 273 ( 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
  4. ↑ Au pays des mages noirs . In: Jean Rouch, l'Homme-Cinéma. Decouvrir les films de Jean Rouch . Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), September 2017, p. 24-25 ( issuu.com [accessed January 8, 2019]).
  5. ^ Initiation à la danse des possédés. Cinémathèque française , accessed January 8, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Bataille sur le grand fleuve. Les Écrans Documentaires, accessed January 8, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ Dynamiques sécuritaires frontalières et transfrontalières à Ayorou. The principales conclusions de la mission d'évaluation effectuée par le groupe danois de deminage. (PDF) Danish Demining Group (DDG), May 2015, p. 7 , accessed on January 8, 2019 (French).
  8. ^ Niger DSS. In: Systems Nationale d'Information Sanitaire (SNIS). Ministère de la Santé Publique, République du Niger, accessed January 8, 2019 (French).
  9. ^ VN Nguyen, DV Tran: Rice in producing countries: Niger. In: FAO Rice Information, Volume 3. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization , December 2002, accessed January 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 14 ° 49 '  N , 0 ° 53'  E