Saga Gorou I

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Location of Saga Gorou I in Niger

Saga Gorou I (also: Saga Gorou 1 ) is a village in the Niamey IV arrondissement of the city of Niamey in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief (chef traditionnel) , is located on the eastern edge of the rural municipal area of ​​Niamey on National Road 25 . The surrounding settlements include the hamlets of Alpha Toukouara in the northeast and Fandoga in the south. In the traditional system of rule, the mayor of Saga Gorou I reports to the head of the canton of Saga . The word gorou comes from the Zarma language and means "dry valley". Like Saga Gorou II, Saga Gorou I is located between two dry valleys .

The Saga Gorou settlement already existed at the beginning of the 20th century. It was founded by Zarma from Saga, who initially only stayed here during the rainy season to cultivate their fields, and who returned after the harvest until they finally settled permanently in Saga Gorou. Soon afterwards, Fulbe cattle herders moved in. These lost their herds during the famine of the 1970s and 1980s and also became arable farmers. The original tiger bush vegetation in the area completely disappeared from 1950 to 1975. As a result of the population growth of Niamey, the land was cleared and made arable. In 2007 the village was one of the venues for the first edition of the Pripalo open-air cultural festival under the direction of Achirou Wagé .

At the 2012 census, Saga Gorou I had 2,792 inhabitants who lived in 368 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 1,612 in 249 households.

In Saga Gorou I, irrigation and rain farming are practiced.

literature

  • Amadou Abdourhamane Touré: Erosion en milieu sableux cultivé au Niger: dynamique actuelle et passée en liaison avec la pression anthropique et les changements climatiques . Thèse de doctorat. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon 2011 ( researchgate.net [PDF]).
  • Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Rodrigue Guillon, Zibo Garba, Jean-Louis Rajot, Christophe Petit, Vincent Bichet, Alain Durand, David Sebag: Evolution des paysages sahéliens au cours des six dernières décennies dans la région de Niamey: de la disparition de la brousse tigrée à l'encroûtement de surface des sols . In: Pangea . No. 47/48 , 2010, ISSN  0760-1751 , p. 35-40 ( researchgate.net ).
  • Toumbounou Wakil: Impact de l'alphabétisation en Ajami sur les populations bénéficiaires de la ville de Niamey: cas des quartiers Karadjé, Lossagoungou, Saga Gorou et Gorou Banda . Mémoire de fin d'études. ENS, Niamey 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 717 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ 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. 86 ( uu.diva-portal.org [PDF; accessed on April 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Ibrahim Mamadou: La dynamique accélérée des koris de la région de Niamey et ses conséquences sur l'ensablement du fleuve Niger . Thèse de doctorat Ph.D. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Niamey / Paris 2012, p. 127 ( researchgate.net [PDF; accessed April 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Amadou Abdourhamane Touré: Erosion en milieu sableux cultivé au Niger: dynamique actuelle et passée en liaison avec la pression anthropique et les changements climatiques . Thèse de doctorat. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon 2011, p. 90–91 ( researchgate.net [PDF; accessed June 7, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Rodrigue Guillon, Zibo Garba, Jean-Louis Rajot, Christophe Petit, Vincent Bichet, Alain Durand, David Sebag: Evolution des paysages sahéliens au cours des six dernières décennies dans la région de Niamey: de la disparition de la brousse tigrée à l'encroûtement de surface des sols . In: Pangea . No. 47/48 , 2010, ISSN  0760-1751 , p. 36 and 40 ( researchgate.net [accessed June 2, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Ibrahim A. Tikiré: Lancement du festival Pripalo. In: Niger Diaspora. July 19, 2007, accessed October 23, 2019 (French).
  7. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 32 '  N , 2 ° 13'  E