Kantché

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Rural commune of Kantché
Rural community Kantché (Niger)
Rural commune of Kantché
Rural commune of Kantché
Coordinates 13 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 8 ° 28'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

cinder
department Kantché
ISO 3166-2 NE-7
Residents 49,706 (2010)

Kantché is a rural municipality in Niger and formally the capital of the department of Kantché .

geography

A drum maker in Kantché

Kantché lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The neighboring communities are Garagoumsa in the north, Ichirnawa in the northeast, Matamèye in the southeast, Tsaouni in the south, Daouché in the southwest and Korgom in the northwest. The municipality is divided into 42 administrative villages, 16 traditional villages and 43 hamlets. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Kantché.

history

Kantché was a province of Katsina at the beginning of the 19th century . In 1812 the Fulbe conquered the empire, but had to give up the north of Katsina in 1819 after several battles. There, with Maradi, an initially independent state developed. The ruler of Maradi thanked the Sultan of Zinder for giving him asylum in the turmoil of war, and Kantché and Korgom to the Sultanate of Zinder . Sultan Ténimoun von Zinder put Dan Balhadé as his governor in Kantché, who founded a dynasty there.

The French research and military expedition, Mission Foureau-Lamy , stopped in Kantché from November 20 to 21, 1899. At the beginning of the 20th century, Kantché fell permanently to France. The local market was one of the large markets in the region that was then approved by the French administration. This also made Kantché the capital of a canton of the same name, which belonged to the Magaria district . A local canton chief ( chef traditionnel ) was responsible for managing a canton . In 1954, the area of ​​the canton of Kantché was detached from the Magaria district and became a separate administrative level above the canton. Since the local chef traditionnel of the canton Kantché did not want a higher-ranking colonial official who was supposed to administer the district in the same place, he settled his official residence in the village of Matamèye, seven kilometers away, while he himself stayed in the village of Kantché. So Matamèye, instead of Kantché, became the capital of the district, which was now also called the district of Matamèye. While the canton of Kantché continued to exist unchanged, in 1964 the Matamèye district became the Matamèye district and in 1998 the Matamèye department with expanded self-government.

As the capital, Matamèye had benefited from numerous infrastructural measures. The canton chief of Kantché tried to correct a perceived historical error and to enforce Kantché as the capital of the new department. In fact, he still managed to do this at the end of 1998: the Matamèye department was officially renamed the Kantché department - with Kantché as the main town. However, not least due to a lack of money, the department's authorities were never relocated to Kantché and so Matamèye de facto remained the department's capital. In 2002, as part of a further administrative reform, the territory of the canton of Kantché, which had existed until then, was divided into nine newly created municipalities. The place Kantché was the only departmental capital of Niger not to receive the status of a township, but that of a rural municipality. The de facto capital Matamèye, however, was elevated to a municipality.

population

At a wedding in Kantché

At the 2001 census, Kantché had 36,608 inhabitants. For the year 2010, 49,706 inhabitants were calculated. Members of the mainly arable Hausa sub-group Katsinawa live in Kantché . The Fulbe subgroups Daourawa and Tchilanko'en and the Tuareg subgroups Iguimirdan and Tafazarak specialize in agropastoralism . In addition, members of the Fulbe subgroup Tountoumankej live in the municipality, who mainly practice remote grazing.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Kantché there is a school opened in 1953, where many of the country's later politicians and diplomats received their basic education. Kantché is on National Road 10 , which leads to the state border with Nigeria .

Personalities

  • Amadou Issaka (1924–2004), politician, minister and head of the Canton of Kantché

literature

  • Guy Nicolas: Aspects de la vie économique dans un canton du Niger: Kantché . In: Cahiers de l'ISEA . No. 131 , November 1962, p. 106-186 .
  • Guy Nicolas: L'Evolution du Canton de Kantché . Thesis. University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux 1957.
  • Guy Nicolas: Un village bouzou du Niger. Etude d'un terroir . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 15 , 1962, pp. 138-165 ( persee.fr ).

Web links

Commons : Kantché  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  2. ↑ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux http://www.case.ibimet.cnr.it/den/Documents/code_rural/cdrom/doc % 20pdf / Loi% 20N% B02002-14% 20cr% E9ation% 20des% 20communes.pdf (link not available)
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 148.
  4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 133-134.
  5. ↑ Fernand Foureau : Documents scientifiques de la mission saharienne. Mission Foureau-Lamy d'Alger au Congo par le Tchad . Atlas (cartographer: Verlet-Hanus). Masson, Paris 1905 ( jubilotheque.upmc.fr [accessed May 6, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 37 .
  7. ↑ Christian Lund: Les dynamiques politiques locales face à une démocratisation fragile (Zinder) ( online version ; PDF; 207 kB). In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mahaman Tidjani Alou (ed.): Les pouvoirs locaux au Niger, Tome 1: A la veille de la décentralization . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , p. 92.
  8. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
  9. ↑ Christian Lund: Les dynamiques politiques locales face à une démocratisation fragile (Zinder) ( online version ; PDF; 207 kB). In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mahaman Tidjani Alou (ed.): Les pouvoirs locaux au Niger, Tome 1: A la veille de la décentralization . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , pp. 94-97.
  10. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 57.
  11. ↑ Ministère de l'élevage et des industries animales / République du Niger (ed.): La mobilité pastorale dans la Région de Zinder. Stratégies et dynamisme des sociétés pastorales . Niamey 2009 ( online version ( Memento of July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 11.3 MB), pp. 30 and 32–33.
  12. ↑ Christian Lund: Les dynamiques politiques locales face à une démocratisation fragile (Zinder) ( online version ; PDF; 207 kB). In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Mahaman Tidjani Alou (ed.): Les pouvoirs locaux au Niger, Tome 1: A la veille de la décentralization . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , p. 93.