Harou Kouka

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Harou Kouka (* 1922 in Zinder ; † August 10, 2008 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien doctor and politician.

Life

Harou Kouka belonged to the Hausa ethnic group . He attended schools in Gouré , in the old town of his hometown Zinder and in Niamey. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the École normal William Ponty . He was then accepted into the French West Africa Medical School in Dakar . There he graduated in African medicine in 1947. After his military service, Harou Kouka worked as a doctor in Niger from 1948 to 1958. His professional stations were Mirriah , Bilma , Magaria , Zinder, Filingué and Tanout .

In Tanout in 1956 Kouka supported the election campaign of Hamani Diori from the Nigerien Progressive Party . When Hamani Diori formed his government as Prime Minister in 1958, Harou Kouka was a member of the ministerial team. From December 10, 1958, he was Minister of Labor, from October 18, 1959, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, from December 31, 1960, Minister of Labor and Health, and from June 25, 1963, as successor to Mamoudou Maïdah, Minister of Education. His reforms had a lasting impact on the school system in Niger. When the Paris student riots of May 1968 spread to Niger, Kouka's attitude was criticized for being too repressive. On August 17, 1972, he changed departments again and became Minister for Public Works, Transport and Buildings.

On April 15, 1974, Seyni Kountché launched a coup against Hamani Diori. Harou Kouka, like most ministers, was arrested. Until 1974 he was imprisoned in a military camp in Agadez , then together with Hamani Diori in a military camp in Zinder. He was released on April 15, 1978, but was no longer allowed to practice his old profession as a doctor. In 1980 he was placed under house arrest in Birni Kazoe , his father's home village, and was only released for good after Seyni Kountché's death in 1987.

At an advanced age, Harou Kouka only held important political functions twice. From December 1990 to January 1992 he was the provisional head of the Politburo of the Nigerien Progressive Party. In 1996 he was a member of the Council of Orphans after Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara's coup .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mahamadou Danda : Politique de décentralisation, développement régional et identités locales au Niger: le cas du Damagaram . Dissertation. Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux 2004, p. 39 ( halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed September 12, 2016]).
  2. ^ A b André Salifou : Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 282-284.
  3. ^ John Dickie, Alan Rake: Who's who in Africa. The political, military and business leaders of Africa . African Development, London 1973, p. 311.
personal data
SURNAME Kouka, Harou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH cinder
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2008
Place of death Niamey