Marius Gabriel Cazemajou

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Marius Gabriel Cazemajou (born December 10, 1864 in Marseille , † May 5, 1898 in Zinder ) was a French officer .

Life

Marius Gabriel Cazemajou joined the French army in 1886 and was promoted to captaincy in 1889 . He initially served in Tunisia and French Indochina until he was transferred to French West Africa in 1896 . The slave trader Rabih az-Zubayr had conquered the Bornu Empire and France feared that its borders in West and Equatorial Africa would be threatened . In 1897 Cazemajou was commissioned to enter into negotiations with Rabih az-Zubayr. On his way to Bornu, he concluded protection treaties with the Sultan of Kebbi and the Sultan of Tessaoua in 1898 . He finally reached the Sultanate of Zinder, which was historically under the Bornu Empire, but not yet subject to Rabih az-Zubayr. Sultan Amadou dan Ténimoun von Zinder feared an anti-Zinder alliance between France and Rabih az-Zubayr and had Cazemajou and his translator murdered.

Map of Zinder and the surrounding area in 1899, with Fort Cazemajou and the house where Cazemajous died

Aftermath

France was forced to react militarily to the assassination of Cazemajou and in 1899 defeated the Sultanate of Zinder in the battle of Tirmini . This was an important preliminary stage for the establishment of the French colony of Niger . The main military camp in Zinder was initially named after Cazemajou, but after Niger's independence in 1960 it was renamed after Sultan Ténimoun dan Sélimane von Zinder. Jean d'Esme described the murder of Cazemajou in the short story La marche vers le soleil , which appeared in the anthology Sables de feu in 1949 . The events of Cazemajou's death are the subject of the feature film Si les cavaliers , which was produced in 1982 under the direction of Mahamane Bakabé and based on a template by André Salifou .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 113 .
  2. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 201.
  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 161 .
  4. ^ Daniel Mignot, Jean-Dominique Pénel: Le Niger dans la littérature française . In: Marie-Clotilde Jacquey (ed.): Littérature nigérienne (=  Notre librairie . No. 107 ). CLEF, Paris 1991, p. 28 .
  5. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 327 .
personal data
SURNAME Cazemajou, Marius Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1898
Place of death cinder