Saga (niamey)

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On the main street of Saga (2011)

Saga is a district of Niamey in Niger . The settlement on the Niger River existed for centuries before the city of Niamey was founded.

geography

Saga is located on the southern outskirts in the arrondissement of Niamey IV . The surrounding districts include Gamkalley in the north and the settlements near Niamey Airport such as Aéroport I and Aéroport II in the east . The rural community Liboré follows in the south .

The historic center of Saga covers an area of ​​approximately 146 hectares . It consists of four districts ( French : quartiers ): Saga Fondobon , Saga Gassia Kouara , Saga Goungou and Saga Sambou Koira . More recent extensions are Saga Dababanda across the main street and Cité Olani as the eastern branch of the district.

Saga is located on the left bank of the Niger River in a plateau with a layer of sand less than 2.5 meters deep, which means that only limited infiltration is possible. The district is regularly exposed to flooding in the rainy season in July and August. Particularly severe floods occurred in 1998, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2017. In 2017, 27 residential buildings were destroyed and two people died.

history

The place name comes from the Saga Zarma -word Sagai that the plant Osher (Calotropis procera) , respectively.

Saga, originally a settlement predominantly inhabited by the Zarma ethnic group , according to some traditions, was founded in 1572 by Moussa Zarmakoye, a warrior from N'Dounga . Accordingly, a man named Abdou Wahab Sy from Gao and a group of gourmands made the area available to him. Three sons of Moussa Zarmakoye are said to have been the founders of the four historic districts of Saga.

At the beginning of the French colonial era at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Saga became the capital of a canton of the same name , which has since been run by a traditional ruler (French: chef traditionnel ) subordinate to state administration . Only from 1904 to 1908 was Saga part of the Niamey canton that existed during this period. The colonial administration imposed taxes on the Saga market for a time in order to favor the development of the market in the nearby new capital Niamey. Saga went into market after a period of drought and famine in the 1930s. Legend has it that a re-establishment of the market would result in the overthrow or death of the traditional ruler.

With the division of Niamey into five districts in 1979, the settlement became part of the 4th district, which in 1989 with the 3rd district in the sub-municipality Niamey II, which in turn was dissolved in 1996 in the previous form.

Culture

The district is known for its Zarma pottery. In Saga there is a training center for Djesseré , a special kind of storyteller who passes on historical traditions in long lectures. A public library, the Bibliothèque Nangou Sambou, has existed since 2000 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Stalls on the main street of Saga (2011)

Rice cultivation is of paramount importance as a source of income and staple food for the people of Saga. It goes back to 1967, when the Republic of China supported the creation of areas for rice cultivation in an area of ​​750 hectares around the settlement. The rice farmers are united in a cooperative . Saga residents traditionally belong to the landowners in the Niamey Green Belt , where they farm.

Groceries, clothes and housewares are sold along the main street. There are several public and private schools in Saga. The oldest elementary school was founded in 1962 and the first middle school in 1987. The Center de Santé Intégré (CSI) de Saga health center , which is known far beyond the boundaries of the settlement, was created in 1996. It is run by the Missionaries of Charity .

Personalities

  • Nouhou Malio (1915–1986), narrator of the Djesseré profession

literature

  • Safiétou Fanta Mady Cissé: Evaluation of the pratiques de gestion des ennemis de cultures maraîchères dans la communauté urbaine de Niamey. Cas du site de saga . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2011.
  • Tahirou Hassan Yaou, Bachirou Hamadou Younoussa, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Ibrahim Issa Toukal, Zibo Garba: Caractérisations physiques des sols et de leurs rôles dans les inondations á Niamey, Niger . In: Africa Science . Vol. 14, No. 3 , May 2018, ISSN  1813-548X , p. 192-205 ( researchgate.net ).
  • 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 (and diva-portal.org [PDF]).
  • Habi Ouzeirou: Typology of the maraîchers du site de Gamkalé-Saga et analyze de leurs stratégies de production . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2006.

Web links

Commons : Saga (Niamey)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 383–384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  2. ^ The Study on Sanitation Improvement for the Niamey City in Republic of Niger. Appendix F: Existing Urban Conditions. (PDF) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), August 2000, p. F-4 , accessed on April 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b 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. 85–86 ( including diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c 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. 202–203 ( including diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Tahirou Hassan Yaou, Bachirou Hamadou Younoussa, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Ibrahim Issa Toukal, Zibo Garba: Caractérisations physiques des sols et de leurs rôles dans les inondations á Niamey, Niger . In: Africa Science . Vol. 14, No. 3 , May 2018, ISSN  1813-548X , p. 197–198 ( researchgate.net [accessed April 19, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b 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. 129 and 137 ( including diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Calotropis procera. In: Fakara Plants. Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, accessed May 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 23 .
  9. ↑ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Niger . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 97 .
  10. ↑ Hamadou Seini: Zarma-Songhoï Verbal Artistry and Expression: From the Epic to the Francophone Novel, with a Focus on Intertextual Dialogue Across the Genres . Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder 2013, pp. 32 ( scholar.colorado.edu [PDF; accessed April 2, 2020]).
  11. ↑ a b c 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. 84 ( uu.diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  12. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 191 .
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ a b 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. 87-88 ( including diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).
  15. ↑ a b 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. 141 and 201 ( including diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on May 8, 2019]).

Coordinates: 13 ° 28 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E