Kalley (Niamey)

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View from the Great Mosque of Niamey to Kalley (2006)

Kalley is a district of Niamey in Niger .

geography

The traffic area named after Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye Place Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye on the border of the Kalley Center , Kalley Est and Lacouroussou districts (2018)

The district is located in the center of Niamey and administratively belongs to the Arrondissement Niamey III . In addition to the districts (quartiers) Kalley Center , Abidjan (Kalley Nord), Kalley Est and Kalley Sud, the districts Collège Mariama (Sabongari), Lacouroussou and Nouveau Marché . On the edge of Kalley is the National Assembly House of Parliament .

history

The Zarma settlement of Kalley may have been founded in the early 19th century. The place name is derived from the Kallé ethnic group , a subgroup of the Zarma. The rank of being at the beginning of the settlement history of Niamey is disputed between groups from Kalley, Goudel , Maourey , Saga and Yantala . According to the Zarma version, a kallé left the Zarmaganda region because of family disputes over land . He asked for fields in the village of Goudel, which he received between the settlements of Yantala and Gamkalley Sébanguey . The man told his slaves in the Zarma language : wa gnam ne, wa gnam ne ("open up the land here, open up the land there"). The place name Niamey would have emerged from this saying over time.

The actual city of Niamey was not founded until the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1930s, Kalley was one of the then five districts, alongside Gawèye , Koira Tagui , Maourey and Zongo . When Niamey's population grew rapidly in the early 1950s, Kalley was the only one of the old neighborhoods that still had room for expansion adjacent to it. New quarters such as Nouveau Marché were created as an extension.

Infrastructure

Kalley is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Niamey. Many beggars live here. The houses in Kalley are usually adobe buildings devoid of comfort. Cooking takes place outdoors. There is no running water and accordingly no showers and water closets.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ Arouna Hamidou Sidikou : Niamey . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 111 , September 1975, p. 212 ( persee.fr [accessed May 5, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Emmanuel Ravalet, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin: Mobilités, activités et territoires du quotidien à Niamey (Niger). La segregation au-delà des espaces résidentiels? In: Espace populations sociétés, 2015 / 1–2. July 1, 2015, accessed June 11, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ a b Ursula Meyer: Foncier périurbain, citoyenneté et formation de l'état au Niger. Une analyze ethnographique de Niamey . LIT, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-80287-3 , p. 66-67 .
  5. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 334 .
  6. ↑ Gabriella Körling: In Search of the State. An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger (=  Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology . No. 51 ). Uppsala University, Uppsala 2011, ISBN 978-91-554-8127-8 , pp. 106 ( uu.diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  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. 28 .
  8. ^ Patrick Gilliard: L'extrême pauvreté au Niger. Mendier ou mourir? Karthala, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84586-629-1 , p. 136 .
  9. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho, Hamadou Issaka: Diversité of stratégies résidentielles des familles démunies à Niamey. (PDF) Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 25, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on May 5, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E