Saga Fondobon

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Neighborhood
Saga Fondobon
Coordinates 13 ° 28 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 28 '  N , 2 ° 8'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey IV
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 1243 (2012)

Saga Fondobon (also: Fondobon Saga ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey IV of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Saga Fondobon is located in the south of the urban parish of Niamey on the Niger River . The neighborhood is part of the historical center of Saga .

history

According to the local chronicle, Saga Fondobon was founded at the end of the 16th century as one of the four oldest neighborhoods in Saga. The other three are Saga Gassia Kouara , Saga Goungou and Saga Sambou Koira . Mali Moussa, a son of the founder of Saga, Moussa Zarmakoye, is considered the founder of Saga Fondobon.

population

At the 2012 census, Saga Fondobon had 1,243 residents who lived in 196 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 3,157 in 488 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 4,374 in 538 households.

literature

  • 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]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 9, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 717 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  3. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ 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. 225 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).