Say (Niger)

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Municipality of Say
Say Municipality (Niger)
Municipality of Say
Municipality of Say
Coordinates 13 ° 6 ′  N , 2 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 6 ′  N , 2 ° 22 ′  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Tillabéri
department Say
ISO 3166-2 NE-6
Residents 60,233 (2010)
politics
mayor Soumaila Oumarou (2012)

Say is a municipality and the capital of the Say department of the same name in Niger .

geography

Say lies at the transition from the Sahel to the greater Sudan landscape . The city has a fishing port on the Niger River . The urban area is divided into ten districts, 40 administrative villages, one traditional village and 39 hamlets. The ten districts are Bolonguie, Bonfeba, Fada Bery, Fada Kaina, Goungobon, Modibadie, Quartier Administratif, Rouga, Zongo and Zoroney. The Forêt classée de Say is a 2460 hectare protected forest area in the municipality of Say. It was placed under protection in 1940. The neighboring communities of Says are Bitinkodji and Youri in the north, Kouré and Kirtachi in the east, Tamou in the south and Ouro Guélédjo in the west.

history

Say in Stieler's Hand Atlas (1891)

Around 1800 Alfa Mohamed Diobo, took a Marabout of the Fulani of Massina , the power in Say. Until then, the place had only been a small Zarma village. Say now developed into an important bridgehead in the west of the Sokoto caliphate created by Usman dan Fodio . The city was an important religious, political and economic center in the 19th century with a large slave market . Alfa Mohamed Diobo died in 1840. He was followed as rulers by Boubakar, Moulye, Baba-Bello, Abdoul-Waydou and Amadou-Fatourou, who before his death in 1897 made his first explorations in France . After Amadou-Fatourou, Alirou-Kalilou, Amadou Satourou and Assane Cissé Hamagano were the regents of Say. Since the visits of the German African explorer Heinrich Barth in June 1853 and July 1854, the city ​​has been an essential starting point for several European nations to explore and conquer this part of Africa. However, Say's former political importance waned towards the end of the 19th century.

Marabouts in Say (1912)

A treaty between the ruler of Say and Colonel Monteil placed Say under French protectorate in 1891 , a few days after an identical treaty had been concluded with the ruler of Ouro Guélédjo . In the course of the military occupation of the later Niger colony by France, Say was initially attached to the French colony of Dahomey in 1899 . In 1907 the city came to the French military territory of Niger ( Territoire militaire du Niger ). As a result of French taxes, the large Say market temporarily lost its function as a major trading center.

In 1960, the year Niger gained independence, Say became the capital of the Say district, which became the Say arrondissement in 1964 and the Say department in 1998. The city was hit by the worst flooding in Niger since 1946 on February 8, 1968, when Maradi was under water. 240 families were left homeless and 612 homes were devastated. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton of Say, which had been around the city, was attached to the municipality of Say.

population

At the 1977 census, Say had 4405 inhabitants, at the 1988 census 6338 inhabitants and at the 2001 census 9365 inhabitants. For 2010, after the expansion of the municipal area, 60,233 inhabitants were calculated.

Culture and sights

The Université Islamique de Say is located in Say . Funded by the Organization of the Islamic Conference , the Islamic University opened in 1986.

On the southern outskirts of the city, in the Bambara district, there is a Friday mosque on sloping terrain . It was built in 1972 after the previous building collapsed in the rainy season of the previous year. It is built as a clay mosque in the typical architectural style of the architectural province of West and Central Sudan . The entire complex measures 150 square meters, so the mosque does not belong to the large complexes of the inland delta. 53 square meters of the area are allocated to the inner prayer room (transverse system) and 51 square meters to the irregularly designed inner courtyard. The mihrāb tower reaches a height of 8 meters. The compact structure surprises with its multi-tower pilaster strips and powerful portal fields in the outer walls of the prayer room and courtyard.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wet rice is grown on the river . The remainder of the communal area used for agriculture is in a zone in which rain- fed agriculture is predominant. The land, which is comparatively fertile for Niger, is subject to massive land speculation. At the large Friday market in the city center, a variety of products are offered, which are often delivered from far away. A medium-sized weekly market is located in the village of Tientiargou (Tientergou). It takes place on Wednesdays. Unadorned calabashes , ironwork, wood and mats made of unprocessed leather, which are used for fencing called tatara , are sold here. Smaller weekly markets in the municipality are the Sunday market in the village of Dokimana and the Wednesday market in the village of Ganki Bassarou. Say is the seat of a Tribunal d'Instance, one of the 30 civil courts nationwide , which are below the ten civil courts of the first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance). National road 27 runs through Say and connects the city with the Nigerien capital Niamey and with the state border with Burkina Faso near Tamou.

Partner municipality

Personalities

literature

  • Soumana Zeinabou Boubacar: Les pratiques agroforestières dans la commune de Say . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2005.
  • Issiakou Djibo Moussa: Monograph du marché à bétail de Say . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.
  • Amadou Oumarou: La délivrance des services de santé dans la commune urbaine de Say . In collaboration with Amadou Boubacar (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 81 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou October 2009 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Amadou Oumarou: La fourniture des services publics dans la commune urbaine de Say . In collaboration with Amadou Boubacar (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 75 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou January 2009 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
  • Amadou Oumarou: Les élections locales de 2009 dans la commune urbaine de Say (Niger) . In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan (ed.): Élections au village. Une ethnographie de la culture électorale au Niger . Karthala, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-8111-1377-3 , pp. 273-286 .

Web links

Commons : Say (Niger)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 92-93.
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  6. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 39 .
  7. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 275.
  9. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 213 .
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  11. ^ Institut national de la statistique (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendence du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 56.
  12. ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 142 .
  13. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), P. 8.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.savethechildren.org.uk
  14. ↑ Aghali Abdoulkader: Le "bien" sécurité dans trois communes (guidan roumdji department, Balleyara et Say). Des logiques de l'Etat aux logiques locales, ou la diversité d'acteurs . In collaboration with Chaibou Adamou (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 105 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2013, p. 12 ( lasdel.net [PDF; accessed April 26, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Dissirama Sabine Attama, Rita Dorigo, Toyé Amina Kiepin: Program de Formation Modulaire en faveur de l'Artisanat Rural: Rapport de la mission d'identification dans les zones de Say et du Parc W on 17/03/2014 on 23/03 / 1994 . RESEDA, Niamey April 1994, p. 5 and 7 ( Word file [accessed May 2, 2014]). Word file ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paologiglio.net
  16. ↑ Bachir Talfi: Note sur l'organization judiciaire . Nigerien Ministry of Justice website, accessed September 24, 2012.
  17. ^ Jean-Claude Peyronnet: La solidarité internationale à l'échelle des territoires: état des lieux et perspectives. Annexe 5: Document de travail de l'ambassade de France au Niger sur les coopérations décentralisées dans ce pays. Senate of the French Republic, November 13, 2012, accessed July 6, 2013 (French).