Karma (collo)

Rural Church of Karma
Rural Church of Karma
Coordinates	13 ° 40 ′  N , 1 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 40 ′  N , 1 ° 49 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Collo
Residents	71,843 (2010)

Karma is a rural municipality in the department of Kollo in Niger .

geography

River Niger near Boubon village in Karma (2008)

Karma is located in the Sahel zone and lies in a plateau with wide valleys on the Niger River . The community borders the capital Niamey in the southeast . The other neighboring communities are Kourteye in the northwest, Simiri in the north, Hamdallaye in the east, Bitinkodji in the south and Namaro in the southwest. The municipality is divided into 40 administrative villages, nine traditional villages, 58 hamlets, seven camps and the river island of Karma Goungou. The main town of the rural community is the village of Karma.

history

In the municipality is the village of Boubon , which was founded around 1340 by a Songhai group . After the fall of the Songhai Empire in 1591, Karma was one of those places in modern-day Niger where Songhai refugees settled under descendants of the Askiya ruling dynasty . Zarma settled the place in the 17th century . In the 19th century, Karma was hit by raids by the Zarma from N'Dounga .

The French colonial administration established a canton in Karma in 1906 . The rural community emerged from the canton of Karma in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform. In the 2010 flood disaster in West and Central Africa , 15,014 residents of Karma were classified as disaster victims. Karma was the second most affected community after Namaro by the disaster in Niger.

population

Women in karma washing dishes (1976)

At the 2001 census, Karma had 51,449 residents. For 2010, 71,843 inhabitants were calculated. In Karma, the Zarma dialect Kaado is spoken.

Culture

In Karma there is a school for the education of Djesseré . These are narrators from the Songhai Zarma Society who pass on historical traditions in long lectures.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main occupation of the population consists of agriculture in the bushland and rice cultivation on the banks of the Niger River. Seasonal labor migration to Togo , the Ivory Coast and Ghana has also been common for a long time . In Karma there is a daily open market with around twenty shops and restaurants as well as a weekly market with over 400 exhibitors.

In the main town there is a Center de Santé Intégré (CSI), a health center that was responsible for caring for over 36,000 people in 2016. A large proportion of the patients make up seasonal migrant workers who return from Ivory Coast with illnesses. The CSI in the Zarma village of Koutoukalé was responsible for the health care of over 12,300 people in 2016. After a meningitis epidemic in 2015 with 358 deaths nationwide, thousands of people were vaccinated against the disease in the following year, with Koutoukalé being one of the centers of action of the Ministry of Health, along with Gounfara , Malbaza and Niamey, with over 5,000 vaccinations .

National Road 1 runs through Karma, coming from Niamey in the direction of the state border with Mali .

literature

• Mamoudou Djibo: Karma. Du Siciya au Canton (1640-1960) . Les Èditions du Flamboyant, Cotonou 2015, ISBN 978-99919-0-840-3 .

Web links

Commons : Karma (Kollo)  - 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 November 8, 2010. 
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 76.
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 74.
5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 85.
6. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 94.
7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 240.
8. ↑ Situation des besoins des populations victimes d'inondations (2010) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 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. . Website of the Center d'Information et de Communication, published on September 23, 2010, accessed on March 31, 2012. 
9. ^ 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. 56.
10. ↑ Hamadou Seini: Zarma-Songhoï Verbal Artistry and Expression: From the Epic to the Francophone Novel, with a Focus on Intertextual Dialogue Across the Genres . Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder 2013, pp. 32 ( scholar.colorado.edu [PDF; accessed April 2, 2020]).
11. ↑ Paul Cottavoz: WASH et choléra - stratégie bouclier dans les aires de santé les plus affectées des régions sanitaires de Tillabéri, Tahoua et Maradi. Rapport d'évaluation. (PDF) UNICEF Niger, May 2016, pp. 43–44 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French). 
12. ↑ Paul Cottavoz: WASH et choléra - stratégie bouclier dans les aires de santé les plus affectées des régions sanitaires de Tillabéri, Tahoua et Maradi. Rapport d'évaluation. (PDF) UNICEF Niger, May 2016, pp. 45–46 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French). 
13. ^ Omar H. Saley: Le Niger prend des mesures de riposte contre la méningite. In: Bamada.net. March 7, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 (French).