Lougou (Niger)

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Location of Lougou in Niger
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Lougou is a village in the Dan-Kassari rural community in Niger .

The village is located northwest of the municipal capital Dan-Kassari. Lougou had 1,009 people in 123 households in the 1988 census, 252 people in 31 households in the 2001 census, and 366 people in 45 households in the 2012 census.

Lougou is considered to be the oldest existing settlement in the region. The place is the seat of Sarraounia , a traditional ruler and religious leader of the Azna . On April 16, 1899, the Sarraounia Mangou lost in the Battle of Lougou against the French military expedition Mission Voulet-Chanoine . The French then destroyed the village and the palace of the ruler, whose successors have since resided in a small hut.

The place of justice of the Sarraounia near the sacred stone Toungouma, the cemetery of the rulers and the battlefield from 1899, where human bones are still found, have been preserved. In 2006, the Nigerien state applied to UNESCO to include Lougou on the World Heritage List . The Toungouma Judgment Stone disappeared without a trace in early 2018.

literature

  • Boubé Gado : Les traditions de Lougou, de Birnin Lokoyo et de Massalata . IRSH, Niamey 1986.
  • Nicole Moulin, Boubé Namaïwa, Marie-Françoise Roy , Bori Zamo: Lougou et Saraouniya . With a foreword by Yvon Logéat. 2nd, expanded edition. L'Harmattan, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-343-10550-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 99 ( 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
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 110 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 306.
  5. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 126 .
  6. ↑ Entry in the tentative list on UNESCO World Heritage in French , accessed on March 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Mystérieuse disparition que celle de la célèbre pierre "Toungouma" de Lougou (Dosso). In: Niger Inter. January 18, 2018, accessed January 22, 2018 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 51 '  N , 4 ° 15'  E