Georges Condat

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Georges Mahaman (e) Condat (born June 16, 1924 in Maradi , † October 25, 2012 in Niamey ) was a French - Nigerien politician and diplomat .

Life

Georges Condat was the son of a French colonial official who worked in Maradi in Niger, then French, and a Nigerian mother. He went to school from 1933 to 1936 at the Foyer des Métis (“ Mestizo Home”) in Zinder . In 1944 he graduated from the École normal William Ponty in Sébikotane and then did military service from 1944 to 1945. Professionally, he initially worked as a foreman at the Institut français d'Afrique Noire in Dakar , then at the Nigerien National Archives.

In 1948 Condat became party chairman of the newly founded pro-French party Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS). Niger had been represented in the French National Assembly by one MP - Hamani Diori from the Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA) since 1946 . When a second MP was granted to Niger in 1948, Georges Condat won the election. He joined the Group Independants d'outre-mer and became a member of the parliamentary committee for industrial production, for universal suffrage and for education. In 1951 he was re-elected, the second Nigerian seat, Ikhia Zodi, this time also went to a UNIS party member. Condat was now a member of the UDSR parliamentary group and the parliamentary committees for pensions, for economic affairs and for the press. Dissatisfied with the uncooperative attitude of his party towards Diori Hamani's PPN-RDA, he split off from UNIS in 1953 with the Nigerien Progressive Union (UPN). In 1955 the UPN merged with other former UNIS members to form the Nigerien Action Block (BNA) party, again with Condat as party leader. In 1956 Condat managed to be elected to the National Assembly for the third time in a row. Still a member of the UDSR parliamentary group, he was first in the parliamentary committee for industrial production, then in that for the overseas territories . In the same year, the BNA joined forces with the Nigerien Democratic Union (UDN) to form a new party, the Sawaba, under the leadership of Djibo Bakary . The Sawaba won the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections in Niger . Condat was then parliamentary president of the Nigerien Territorial Assembly until it was dissolved in 1958. In the new elections of 1958 he was elected as a member of the Tessaoua Territorial Assembly, but this election was declared invalid in 1959 and the Sawaba was banned. In the same year, Condat's mandate in the French National Assembly ended.

The PPN-RDA led Niger to independence as a unity party in 1960, with Hamani Diori as state president. Georges Condat did not join the rebellion of the banned Sawaba, but decided to work with the PPN-RDA. He switched to the diplomatic service. From 1962 to 1964 he was Niger's ambassador to Germany , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg as well as to the European Communities . From 1970 to 1972 he was ambassador to the United States . In 1972 the government sent him to the African Groundnut Council in Lagos to represent Niger . Two years after Hamani Diori was ousted in a military coup , Georges Condat was forced into retirement in 1976. He then lived in Niamey, the capital of Niger, where he died in 2012 at the age of 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homage posthumously to Georges Mahamane Condat: l'ancien président de l'Assemblée territoriale du Niger n'est plus. (No longer available online.) In: Le Sahel . October 30, 2012, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved on March 4, 2015 (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 / lesahel.org
  2. ↑ a b c d Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 134 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Georges Mahaman Condat. National Assembly (France) , accessed March 4, 2015 (French).
  4. ^ A b Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 269-272 .
  5. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944 to 1960) . In: Autrepart . No. 27 , 2003, p. 46–47 ( online [PDF; accessed March 4, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Condat, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Condat, Georges Mahaman (full name); Condat, Georges Mahamane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Nigerien politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Maradi
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2012
Place of death Niamey