Léopold Kaziendé

Léopold Kaziendé (* 1910 in Kaya ; † May 26, 1999 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician of Burkinabe origin.

Life

Léopold Kaziendé belonged to the ethnic group of the gourmantché . He went to school in his native Kaya and in Ouagadougou and then studied from 1929 to 1932 at the École normal William Ponty on Gorée . After completing his training, he went to Niger and started working as a primary school teacher in Birni-N'Konni . From 1935 to 1939 he was the school director in Filingué and then went to the École primaire supérieure in Niamey as deputy school director, which was headed by Élisabeth Roehrig. In 1941 he returned to Filingué, where he - with interruptions in 1946 in Maradi and in 1947 in Dosso - remained the school director until 1957.

In 1958 Kaziendé was appointed to the government of Hamani Diori . He was Minister for Public Works, Mining and Hydraulic Engineering from December 20, 1958 to October 18, 1959, Minister for Public Works, Mining and Construction from December 31, 1960 to November 23, 1965, then Minister for Public Works, Transport, Mining and construction until November 22, 1970, then Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry until August 17, 1972 and finally Minister of Defense with the honorary title of Ministre d'État.

On April 15, 1974, Hamani Diori was deposed by Seyni Kountché in a coup. Most of the previous political elite were arrested. Seyni Kountché had been a primary school student of Kaziendé in Filingué. He had his former teacher placed under house arrest in Niamey and after two weeks brought to a military camp in Agadez . Due to illness, Kaziendé was soon taken back to Niamey to a hospital. From August 1975 he was housed with Boubou Hama , the long-time President of the National Assembly , in a villa in a military camp in the capital. When Boubou Hama was released in July 1976, Kaziendé was allowed to choose his future fellow prisoner. His choice fell on his former ministerial colleague Mahamane Dan Dobi . On April 15, 1978, they were both released.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Kaziendé and Oumarou Garba Youssoufou were among the driving forces behind the founding of the Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA), the former Hamani Dioris unity party. He wrote a 1998 six-volume autobiography entitled Souvenirs d'un enfant de la colonization ("Memories of a Child of Colonization").

Honors

Officer of the National Order of Niger
Officer of the National Order of Burkina Faso
Commander of the National Order of Ivory Coast

Commander of the National Order of Mauritania

Commander of the Legion of Honor

Commander of the Palmes académiques

Individual evidence

↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 247.
^ Parti Progressiste Nigérien . In: Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 .
^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 275-277.

personal data
SURNAME	Kaziendé, Léopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaya
DATE OF DEATH	May 26, 1999
Place of death	Niamey

[1] Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 247.

[2] Parti Progressiste Nigérien . In: Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 .

[3] André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 275-277.