Gorou Keyna

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Location of Gorou Keyna in Niger

Gorou Keyna is a village in the Niamey IV arrondissement of the city of Niamey in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief (chef traditionnel) , is located in the rural municipality of Niamey. A neighboring settlement is the hamlet of Gorou Kaina .

The place name comes from the Songhai-Zarma language . The word gorou means "dry valley" and the word keyna means "small". Gourou Keyna can therefore be translated as "small dry valley".

At the 2012 census, Gourou Keyna had 290 inhabitants who lived in 48 households.

Individual evidence

  1. a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 717 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. 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]).
  3. Robert Nicolaï : parentes linguistiques, à propos du Songhay . Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-222-04425-1 , pp. 139 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 34 '  N , 2 ° 10'  E