Mariama Hima

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Mariama Hima Yankori (born February 20, 1951 in Niamey ) is a Nigerien anthropologist , film director , diplomat and politician .

Life

Mariama Hima is a cousin of the film actor Damouré Zika . In her youth she attended the film club of the Center Culturel Franco-Nigérien in Niamey and met the directors Jean Rouch and Serge Moati . In the early 1970s, Hima did her Baccalauréat in Niamey . She then volunteered for a few months in the Nigerien National Museum and decided to train as a museologist , which Jean Rouch made possible for her. She moved to France in 1973 and studied museology, sociology and anthropology at the École du Louvre and ethnolinguistics at the same time at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . After her maîtrise , Hima first returned to Niger. There she directed a series of ethnographic short films that were shown at film festivals in the 1980s . In a trilogy produced by the state broadcaster ORTN , it showed craftsmen in Niamey who make products from waste. When Mariama Hima showed her film Falaw at the 1985 Venice Film Festival , she met Jean Rouch and Damouré Zika there. Rouch improvised the film Cousin, cousine with Hima and Zika on location , which they completed two years later in Niamey. Hima continued her studies in France. She obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies in visual anthropology and a doctorate in anthropology.

Hima returned to Niger in 1989, where she worked in the Nigerien National Museum. In the following year she also took over the position of national director for culture in the state administration. In this role she organized the 20th anniversary of the Francophonie and was jointly responsible for Niger's successful candidacy to hold the 5th Francophonie Games in 2005. From 1992 to 1996 she was director of the Nigerien National Museum. The head of state Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power through a military coup , surprisingly appointed Hima to the interim government. From February 1, 1996, she was State Secretary for Social Affairs and Population, responsible for the advancement of women and children. She successfully endeavored to upgrade her agendas and on April 16, 1996 became Minister for Social Development, Population and the Advancement of Women and Children. She held this position until August 23, 1996, after she had appointed Baré Maïnassara as Niger's ambassador to France. Mariama Hima was the first woman to hold this position. She had the difficult task of representing a regime that had come to power through a military coup. After Baré Maïnassara's violent death in 1999 and the return to democratic conditions, she remained ambassador in Paris until she was recalled in 2003. After retiring from civil service, she works as a consultant for non-governmental organizations .

Filmography

  • 1984: Baabu Banza (Rien ne se jette)
  • 1985: Falaw (L'aluminium)
  • 1986: Toukou (Le tonneau)
  • 1987: Katako (Les planches)
  • 1994: Hadiza et Kalia

Fonts

  • Rôle de la grand-mère dans la société zarma-songhoy: éducation à travers le conte . Mémoire diplôme. EHESS, Paris 1978.
  • Étude filmique de l'artisanat de recupération au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris 10, Paris 1989.
  • L'éducation à travers le conte . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 38-40 .
  • Sagesse africain . La Table ronde, Paris 1998, ISBN 978-2-7103-0835-5 .

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andréa Paganini: Cinémas en Afrique - 2/5: Jean Rouch, CINEMAFRIQUE. (PDF) Cinémas Indépendants Parisiens, January 2013, p. 17 , archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Souley Moutari: Portraits des femmes pionnières du Niger. Mariama Hima Yankori: Un parcours atypique. In: Niger Diaspora. May 13, 2014, archived from the original on May 19, 2014 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 (French).
  3. ^ Nancy J. Schmidt: Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers . In: Kenneth W. Harrow (Ed.): With Open Eyes. Women and African Cinema . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1997, ISBN 90-420-0154-2 , pp. 178 .
  4. ↑ Tahar Cheriaa (ed.): Les Cinémas d'Afrique. Dictionnaire . Karthala, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84586-060-9 , pp. 236-237 .
  5. ↑ Mariama Hima. In: Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee. La Biennale di Venezia, 2006, accessed on May 19, 2014 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 332 .
  7. ↑ a b Gouvernement du président Ibrahim Maïnassara Barré. Niger Governorate, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved May 19, 2014 (French).
  8. ^ Nancy J. Schmidt: Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers . In: Kenneth W. Harrow (Ed.): With Open Eyes. Women and African Cinema . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1997, ISBN 90-420-0154-2 , pp. 185 .
  9. ↑ Baabu Banza. In: Africadoc Network. Retrieved May 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hima, Mariama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hima Yankori, Mariama (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien anthropologist, film director, diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Niamey