Maourey (Niamey)

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Maourey district
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey II
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 883 (2012)

Maourey (also: Maurey ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey II of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Street scene at 18 Rue NB in ​​Maourey (2018)
Street market on Rue du Festival (Rue NB 30) in Maourey (2018)

Maourey is located in the historic city center of Niamey. The neighboring districts are Zongo in the northwest, Deyzeibon in the north, Banizoumbou in the northeast, Kalley Center in the southeast and Kombo in the southwest. The district is located in a plateau with a layer of sand less than 2.5 meters deep, which means that only limited infiltration is possible.

The standard street name scheme in Maourey is Rue NB 1 to the west and Rue ST 1 to the east. The French rue for street was followed by the abbreviation NB for Niamey-Bas ("Nieder-Niamey") or ST for the stadium area of ​​the Stade municipale de Niamey located in the neighboring Kalley Center district, and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

The Maourey settlement may have been founded in the early 19th century. The place name is derived from the Maouri ethnic group in Aréoua in southwest Niger . The status of being at the beginning of the settlement history of the urban area of ​​Niamey is disputed between groups from Maourey, Goudel , Kalley , Saga and Yantala . According to the Maouri version, Maouri were killed and expelled from the island of Néini Goungou because of a conflict over Fulbe pastures . The survivors left by an old large tree with the species name Gna . The place name Gna-me , in other words Niamey , would come from this, meaning “in the vicinity of Gna”.

In the 1930s, Maourey was , along with Gawèye , Kalley, Koira Tagui and Zongo, one of the five districts that made up Niamey, which was founded in the early 20th century. The district consisted of two parts at this time: Maourey Ganda ("lower Maourey") and Maourey Béné ("upper Maourey"), which was founded by Roman Catholic missionaries and was also called Kabékouara ("quarter of the bearded people"). In the 1980s, Maourey and Zongo were temporarily merged administratively into one district. The Petit Marché market area was destroyed in a fire in 2012 .

population

At the 2012 census, Maourey had 883 inhabitants who lived in 179 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 3,273 in 525 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 1,623 in 310 households.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the 1980s, the district increasingly changed from a residential area to a commercial district. The houses in Maourey are usually adobe buildings devoid of any comfort. Cooking takes place outdoors. There is no running water and accordingly no showers and water closets. Maourey residents traditionally belong to the landowners in the Niamey Green Belt , where they farm.

Web links

Commons : Maourey (Niamey)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b Ursula Meyer: Foncier périurbain, citoyenneté et formation de l'état au Niger. Une analyze ethnographique de Niamey . LIT, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-643-80287-3 , p. 66 .
  4. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 334-335 .
  5. ↑ Gabriella Körling: In Search of the State. An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger (=  Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology . No. 51 ). Uppsala University, Uppsala 2011, ISBN 978-91-554-8127-8 , pp. 106 ( uu.diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
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  12. ↑ 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. 222 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
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  14. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho, Hamadou Issaka: Diversité of stratégies résidentielles des familles démunies à Niamey. (PDF) Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, July 25, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on May 5, 2019 (French).
  15. ↑ Ursula Meyer: Pratiques de gouvernance du foncier au lendemain de la democratisation: Le cas du foncier périphérique à Niamey, Niger. (PDF) Université de Lausanne, September 5, 2014, p. 4 , accessed April 25, 2019 (French).