Mahamane Dan Dobi

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Mahamane Dan Dobi (* 1923 in Guecheme ; † 13. May 1981 in Niamey ; also Mahamane Dandobi ) was a Nigerien politician. He also appeared as a playwright.

Life

Mahamane Dan Dobi went to school in his native Guéchémé, in Birni-N'Konni , in Maradi and in Niamey . Then he attended from 1938 to 1942 the École normal William Ponty . Until 1945 he worked in the colonial administration in Niamey and was then transferred to Téra . Mahamane Dan Dobi was one of the founding members of the Nigerien Progress Party . His anti-colonialist attitude earned him the suspicion of the local French colonial authorities and he therefore preferred to live in Guinea from 1948 to 1954 . Back in Niamey, he directed the Amicale de Niamey theater company , for which he wrote a number of plays.

Two years after his return to Niger, he became Deputy General Secretary of the Nigerien Progressive Party. In 1957 he was elected to the Nigerien Territorial Assembly as a member of the Dogondoutchi County , in 1958 he was elected to the Nigerien Parliament and in 1959 he was elected Senator in the French Council of the Republic . Shortly before Niger's independence, in July 1960, Mahamane Dan Dobi became head of the canton of Takassaba . He held this office parallel to his further political career until 1974. His party friend Hamani Diori appointed him to the government as Minister of Justice on November 23, 1965 . From January 15, 1970 he was briefly Minister of Health, then on November 22, 1970 he became Minister for Public Works, Mining and Construction. He held his last ministerial office on August 17, 1972 as Minister for Economic Affairs in Rural Areas.

On April 15, 1974, Seyni Kountché deposed Hamani Diori in a coup and had Mahamane Dan Dobi, like most of his ministerial colleagues, arrested and imprisoned in the Agadez military camp . As a former primary school teacher Seyni Kountché, the former minister Léopold Kaziendé had significantly better conditions of detention and in 1976 was allowed to choose a fellow prisoner himself. His choice fell on Mahamane Dan Dobi. On April 15, 1978, both were initially released. Mahamane Dan Dobi was again incarcerated in a prison in Dosso in October 1980 for reasons unknown . He died about six months later in a Niamey hospital.

Works as a playwright

  • L'aventure d'une chèvre (1955)
  • La legend de Kabrin Kabra (1957)
  • Les invités du bar welcome
  • Maïmouna

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 291-293.
  2. ↑ Janet Beik: Hausa theater in Niger. A contemporary oral art . Garland, New York / London 1987, ISBN 0-8240-8703-8 , p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Dan Dobi, Mahamane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dandobi, mahamane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Guéchémé
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1981
Place of death Niamey