Mehana
| Rural commune of Méhana | |||
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 24 ' N , 1 ° 8' E | ||
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| Country | Niger | ||
| Tillabéri | |||
| department | Téra | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | NE-6 | ||
| Residents | 27,660 (2010) | ||
Méhana (other spellings: Mehana , Méhanna , Mehanna ) is a rural community in the Téra department in Niger .
geography
Méhana is located in the southern Sahel zone and lies on the right bank of the Niger River northwest of the regional capital Tillabéri . The neighboring communities of Méhanas are Dessa and Sinder in the east and Kokorou in the north, south and west. The municipality is divided into 15 administrative villages, a traditional village, 30 hamlets and two camps. The main town of the rural municipality is the administrative village of Méhana.
history
In 1899, the Méhana area came under French military administration as part of the newly created Sinder district . In 1905 the place was attached to the new military territory of Niger. Méhana was initially part of the canton of Kokorou and was detached from the canton as an independent rural municipality in 2002 as part of a state-wide administrative reform.
population
At the 2001 census, Méhana had 20,884 inhabitants. For 2010, 27,660 inhabitants were calculated. Méhana is one of the main settlement areas of the Songhai in Niger, next to the city of Tillabéri and the village of Wanzerbé in the municipality of Gorouol .
Culture and sights
In the center of the village there is a well-preserved Friday mosque , a courtyard mosque. It was built in 1958 under an imam from Timbuktu and had no previous building. The entire facility has an area of 1200 square meters. 720 square meters are allocated to the inner courtyard alone, and a further 336 to the prayer room building. On the west side of the inner courtyard there is an outbuilding in which the madrasa , framed by two rows of neem trees , is housed. The courtyard wall is unadorned and not structured. Entrances are on the north and south sides. The Betraumgebäude is built as a cross-facility and home to an eccentrically aligned, block-shaped mihrab -Vorbau. The interior is divided into six traversal aisles. The entrances are shaped like a mushroom, with a passage height of two meters. A minbar is set up on the qibla wall next to the mihrāb .
Economy and Infrastructure
Méhana is an important market that the colonial power France opened in the 1930s. The market day is Wednesday. The community is located in a zone where rain-fed agriculture is practiced.
Personalities
- Abdallah Boureima (* 1954), manager and politician
- Hamani Saliah (1964-2008), officer
literature
- Dany Hellal: Un exemple de coopération North-South. Margny-lès-Compiègne et Méhanna (France-Niger) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-343-03967-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 234-235.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tunde Adeleke: Songhay . Rosen, New York 1996, ISBN 0-8239-1986-2 , p. 11.
- ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, p. 338 .
- ^ Paul Stoller: Fusions of the Worlds. An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1997, ISBN 0-226-77544-5 , pp. 130 .
- ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 60 .
- ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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 note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.
