Kaoura Abdou

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Location of Kaoura Abdou in Niger

Kaoura Abdou (also: Kaora Abdou , Kaouara Abdou ) is a village in the Badaguichiri rural community in Niger .

The village, led by a traditional chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located around 31 kilometers east of Badaguichiri, the capital of the rural community of the same name, which belongs to the Illéla department in the Tahoua region. It is located in a valley in the south of the Ader Doutchi mountain range . The difference in altitude between the valley floor and the surrounding plateau is up to 70 meters. Larger villages in the Kaoura Abdou area are Garhanga in the northeast, Allakaye in the southeast and Dindi in the southwest.

The valley of Kaoura Abdou was an early center of the Tijānīya of Ibrahim Baye Niass in the 1920s , which shaped the Islamization in the south of the Tahoua region. Here worked marabouts from Kano that their training in Kaolack had been completed.

At the 2012 census, Kaoura Abdou had 5,672 inhabitants who lived in 877 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 3,821 in 598 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 3,296 in 594 households.

In Kaoura Abdou there is a weekly market and a slaughterhouse.

literature

  • Mohamed Chy Ould Salek: L'effet multiplicateur de vulgarisation à une échelle paysanne, dans le cadre des interventions du projet agro-forestier de Tahoua. Cas de Loubé (arrondissement de Bouza), Kaoura Abdou et Katossora (arrondissement d'Illéla) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Répertoire National des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 342 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  2. ^ JC Renon, Yves Boulvert: Regional Government of L'Ader Doutchi-Maggia. Troisième partie: Basins versants expérimentaux. Études pédologiques de <détail>. Rapport . SOGETHA, Grenoble 1964, p. 12 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed October 4, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Moulaye Hassane, Marthe Doka, Oumarou Makama Bawa: Etude sur les pratiques de l'Islam au Niger. Report provisoire . République du Niger, Ministère de l'Intérieur et de la Décentralization, Direction Générale des Affaires Politiques et Juridiques, Direction des Affaires Coutumières et Religieuses, April 2006, p. 26 ( studylibfr.com [accessed September 8, 2018]).
  4. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) (No longer available online.) Institut National de la Statistique, 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
  5. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 305 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.ceped.org
  6. ^ Badaguichiri est une commune de la Région de Tahoua, où la cohabitation entre les groupes sociaux force l'admiration. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, October 30, 2015, accessed September 8, 2018 (French).

Coordinates: 14 ° 27 '  N , 5 ° 40'  E