Gorou Banda (Niamey I)

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Location of Gorou Banda in Niger

Gorou Banda is a village in the Niamey I arrondissement of the city of Niamey in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located on the Niger River in the west of the rural municipal area of ​​the Nigerien capital Niamey. The neighboring villages include Boubon upstream and Tondi Koirey downstream . A dry valley that flows into the Niger runs near the village, which endangers the settlement if the water supply is too strong. The word gorou comes from the Zarma language and means "dry valley". The Zarma- Postposition banda called "after, behind." The place name Gorou Banda can therefore be translated as "behind the dry valley".

In the years 2000, 2002 and 2013 the fashion event Festival International de la Mode en Afrique (FIMA) took place in Gorou Banda.

At the 2012 census, the village had 699 inhabitants who lived in 77 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 409 in 52 households.

In Gorou Banda there are Moringa gardens that are cultivated by women.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 715 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Laouali Souleymane: Mission de suivi de l'installation de la campagne agro-sylvo-pastorale et hydraulique dans la région de Niamey au titre de la campagne 2015: Plusieurs localités et arrondissements communaux sillonnés par la délégation. In: aNiamey.com. July 27, 2015, accessed June 1, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Ibrahim Mamadou: La dynamique accélérée des koris de la région de Niamey et ses conséquences sur l'ensablement du fleuve Niger . Thèse de doctorat Ph.D. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Niamey / Paris 2012, p. 127 ( researchgate.net [PDF; accessed April 20, 2019]).
  4. ^ Leo Sibomana: Le Zarma parlé. Esquisse grammaticale, lexique, textes . LIT, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0872-3 , pp. 74 .
  5. ^ Editions précédentes. Festival International de la Mode en Afrique, accessed on April 30, 2019 (French).
  6. ^ 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

Coordinates: 13 ° 35 '  N , 1 ° 59'  E