Mohamadou Djibrilla Maiga

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Mohamadou Djibrilla Maïga (born June 8, 1908 in Kolmane , † November 23, 1975 in Paris ) was a Nigerien politician .

Life

Mohamadou Djibrilla Maiga belonged to the Songhai ethnic group . When Niger became a colony of France in 1922 , he helped establish the colonial administration as a young man. After attending secondary school, he became an employee of the colonial administration. Maïga worked for them in Ivory Coast for a long time . When he returned to Niger, Félix Houphouët-Boigny , the chairman of the African Democratic Collection (RDA), the RDA section in Niger , recommended him to the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN-RDA). Maïga ran for the PPN-RDA in 1946 in the election of the Nigerien member of the French National Assembly . Due to his long absence in Niger, he was hardly known and was the last of five candidates. The mandate went to the PPN-RDA party leader Hamani Diori . Maïga managed to be elected to the French Senate on January 13, 1947 . There the RDA belonged to the faction of the Communist Party of France . Maïga was a member of the Senate Committees for Overseas France and for Communications and Transport. He was involved in legislative proposals and debates on French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa . At the end of 1947 he made a trip to Lake Chad and Agadez with Djibo Bakary in order to build up party sections of the PPN-RDA there. Maïga ran for re-election in 1948, but was unsuccessful and left the Senate.

He then worked for the party in Niger. In 1949 he represented Barcourgné Courmo , the deputy PPN-RDA chairman who had been transferred to Zinder , on the party executive committee in the capital Niamey . The RDA leadership under Houphouët-Boigny decided in 1950 to end cooperation with the French Communist Party and instead to join François Mitterrand 's UDSR faction . Maïga did not agree with this decision and left the PPN-RDA. He initially considered founding his own party, but in 1952 he became a member of the Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS). At the end of the 1950s, the party dispute between the PPN-RDA and the Sawaba of the ex-PPN-RDA politician Djibo Bakary escalated. Mohamadou Djibrilla Maïga was involved in an incident in a village between Niamey and Dosso in 1958, where Sawaba-near Fulbe and PPN-RDA-near Zarma violently attacked each other, resulting in one death and several injuries. In retaliation, the Sawaba-led government transferred Maiga to a post in Tahoua . In early 1960, after the PPN-RDA took over and shortly before Niger's independence, he was appointed district commander of Magaria .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 51-52 .
  2. ↑ a b c Anciens sénateurs IVème République: MAÏGA Mohamadou Djibrilla. Senate of the French Republic, accessed November 7, 2013 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 61-62 .
  4. ^ Mamoudou Djibo: Les transformations politiques au Niger à la veille de l'indépendance . L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7384-9505-2 , pp. 51-52 .
  5. ^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 123, 140, 294 .
personal data
SURNAME Maïga, Mohamadou Djibrilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolmane
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1975
Place of death Paris