Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo

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Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo (* 1937 in Tahoua ; † December 16, 2006 ; also Mahamadou Halilou Sabo ) was a Nigerien politician and writer .

Live and act

Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo worked as an auxiliary primary school teacher from 1957 and as a primary school teacher from 1963. After a two-year training at the École normal supérieure in Abidjan , he became school inspector for primary schools in 1971. During the regime of the Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché , Halilou Sabbo was a member of the Niger government. From December 12, 1977, he was State Secretary for Education. He then became Minister of Information on September 10, 1979, and finally Minister of Justice on June 14, 1982 . On January 24, 1983, he resigned from the government. Halilou Sabbo then headed the Office National d'Edition et de Presse (ONEP), which publishes the state print media Le Sahel and Sahel Dimanche , as well as the state institute for documentation, research and education. In 1996 he was an advisor to President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara .

As a writer, Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo is best known for his novels Aboki ou L'appel de la côte (1978) and Caprices du destin (1981). Aboki is about the migrant workers Amadou, twenty years in the Ivory Coast spends until after political conflicts and a wound to Niger returns. In Caprices du destin the educational system of Niger and the distrust of the population are discussed. Halilou Sabbo also wrote the play Gomma! Adorable Gomma! (1990). He wrote in French . His interest in the national languages ​​of Niger was expressed in the fact that he incorporated numerous Hausa proverbs translated into French into his works .

Mahamadou Halilou Sabbo was honored as a Knight of the Nigerien National Order and the Nigerien Palmes Académiques, as well as Commander of the Malian National Order and the Legion of Honor .

Works

  • Aboki or L'appel de la côte . Les Nouvelles Ed. Africaines, Dakar 1978.
  • Caprices du destin . Presses de l'Imprimerie Nationale du Niger, Niamey 1981.
  • Gomma! Adorable Gomma! Les Nouvelles Ed. Africaines, Dakar 1990, ISBN 2-85069-652-8 .

literature

  • Jean-Dominique Pénel, Amadou Maïlélé: Littérature du Niger. Rencontre . Volume III: Mahamadou Halidou Sabbo, Diouldé Laya, André Salifou, Mamane Maïdou, Diado Amadou, Abdoua Kanta, Yacou Karanta, Mamane Sani, Salif Dago, Moussa Mahamadou, Kangaï Seyni Maïga. L'Harmattan, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-12860-6 , chap. Halidou Sabbo Mahamadou , S. 11-36 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Garé Amadou: Le père d'ABOKI est mort. (No longer available online.) In: Nigerdiaspora. January 3, 2007, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2015 (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 / nigerdiaspora.net
  2. ^ Gouvernements du President Seyni Kountché. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on May 6, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ Susan Gorman: Halilou Sabbo, Mahamadou . In: Simon Gikandi (Ed.): Encyclopedia of African Literature . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-415-23019-5 , pp. 301-302 .
personal data
SURNAME Halilou Sabbo, Mahamadou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halilou Sabo, Mahamadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tahoua
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2006