Gandatché (Niamey)

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Gandatché district
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey II
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 2182 (2012)

Gandatché (also: Gandatié , historically: Kalikaïna ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in Arrondissement Commune II of the city Niamey in Niger .

geography

Mosque on Rue LI 26 in Gandatché (2018)
Street scene on Rue LI 26 in Gandatché (2018)

Gandatché is located in Niamey city center. The district is bounded by the streets of Boulevard de l'Indépendance, Avenue de Gandatché, Boulevard de la Liberté and Rue LI-27. The neighboring districts are Boukoki I in the north, Banizoumbou with the market area of ​​the Grand Marché in the east and Deyzeibon in the south and west. Gandatché extends over an area of ​​about 13.2 hectares and is located in a plateau with a layer of sand more than 2.5 meters deep, which allows better infiltration than in other parts of the city.

The standard scheme for street names in Gandatché and the neighboring Deyzeibon district is Rue LI 1 . The French rue for street is followed by the abbreviation LI for Boulevard de la Liberté and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

Gandatché, whose name was Kalikaïna until the 1930s, was originally a village on the banks of the Niger River . After a major fire in the city in 1935 and the subsequent restructuring of Niamey, the village was moved to its current location and became a district. The poor Fulbe population from what was then the neighboring district of Koira Tagui was resettled in 1984. As a result, Gandatché and the previous location of Koira Tagui were merged into one district.

population

At the 2012 census, Gandatché had 2,182 inhabitants who lived in 408 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 5,035 in 808 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 5,366 in 1,004 households.

literature

  • Hilary Hungerford: Liminal Spaces of Urbanism in Niamey, Niger: The Case of Gandatché . Paper presented at the African Studies Association annual meeting, November 2013. April 19, 2013 ( ssrn.com ).
  • Ali Noma: Le center ville de Niamey en mutation, cas du quartier Gandatché . Éditions universitaires européennes, Saarbrücken 2016, ISBN 978-3-639-78878-5 .

Web links

Commons : Gandatché (Niamey)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  2. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, p. F-3 , accessed April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic, Lucien Godin, Hugues Leroux, Florence Verdet, Roberto Chavez: Street Addressing and the Management of Cities . World Bank, Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0-8213-5815-4 , pp. 85 and 89 .
  4. ↑ Arouna Hamidou Sidikou : Niamey . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 111 , September 1975, p. 205 ( persee.fr [accessed May 5, 2019]).
  5. ^ Hilary B. Hungerford: Water, Cities, and Bodies: A Relational Understanding of Niamey, Niger . Dissertation. University of Kansas, Lawrence 2012, pp. 121–122 ( kuscholarworks.ku.edu [PDF; accessed on May 10, 2019]).
  6. ^ Patrick Gilliard: L'extrême pauvreté au Niger. Mendier ou mourir? Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-629-1 , p. 148-149 .
  7. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 30 .
  8. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 716 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  9. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, 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. ↑ 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. 222 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).