Tamou

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Tamou rural community
Tamou rural community
Coordinates	12 ° 45 '  N , 2 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 12 ° 45 '  N , 2 ° 11'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Tillabéri
department	Say
Residents	89,782 (2012)

Tamou is a rural municipality in the department Say in Niger .

geography

Tamou game reserve

Tamou is located in the northern part of the Sudan landscape . The municipality is divided into 113 villages and 120 hamlets. The main town of the rural community is Tamou village.

Tamou borders the neighboring state of Burkina Faso in the southwest . The neighboring communities in Niger are Say in the north, Kirtachi in the east and Ouro Guélédjo in the west. Tamou is located on the Niger River . The municipality crosses the Niger tributaries Diamangou , Mékrou and Tapoa . Large parts of the municipality are taken up by the W National Park and the Tamou Game Reserve .

history

The German Africa explorer Heinrich Barth visited the area in 1854, the inhabitants of which owned a large number of horses and which he therefore described as extraordinarily wealthy. Barth mentioned Ouro Mobido ("court of the learned nobleman"), today a village in the municipality of Tamou, as the residence of a wealthy landowner.

The French colonial administration established a canton in Tamou at the beginning of the 20th century , the territory of which was gradually expanded to include dissolved cantons: Ouérésouldou and Nani Fonou, and most recently in 1932 Tiala and Diongoré. In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton Tamou became the rural community of Tamou.

population

At the 2012 census, Tamou had 89,782 residents. The population at the 2001 census was 52,917. Tamou is located in an area populated by the Gourmantché ethnic group , whereby the Gourmantché only make up 2% of the total population in the entire Tillabéri region.

Economy and Infrastructure

National road 27 in Tamou

The community is located in a rain-fed zone and is affected by violent land use conflicts.

The Thursday market in the main town is medium-sized compared to other weekly markets in the municipality. Blacksmiths also work here, and bicycle repairers offer their services. More important are the large weekly markets in the villages of Alambaré (Allambaré), Bokki and Guémé, which also attract traders from the capital Niamey . At the Saturday market in Alambaré, groceries, colored aprons from Burkina Faso as well as pieces of silver and tinplate are traded that Fulbe women use for make-up. The weekly market in Guémé always starts on Tuesday at night and ends the following day. Commercial goods include soda from Boboye , mats from the Fulbe villages around Kirtachi and Tillabéri , unadorned calabashes , oil made by women from kirtachi, and mats made of raw leather that are used for fencing called tatara . Sweet potatoes, tomatoes and onions grown by the local population by the river are also sold. Various foods are also offered at the Wednesday market in Bokki. The peanuts sold are processed locally into peanut oil . Craftsmen such as blacksmiths and potters come to the market from the area around Bokki. Smaller weekly markets in the rural community of Tamou are located in the border villages of Boulel and Dantiandou (not to be confused with the rural community of Dantiandou further north ). Both take place on Mondays.

At the village of La Tapoa in the municipality of Tamou there is a civil airport with an unpaved runway, La Tapoa Airport ( ICAO code : DRRP). The national road 27 connects Tamou with the departmental capital Say. The Tapoa Dam, built in 1975, dams the Tapoa River.

Personalities

• Diallo Ousman Bassarou (1906–1992), politician, head of the canton of Tamou
• Diouldé Laya (1937–2014), sociologist

literature

• Michel Benoit: Peuplement, violence endémique et rémanence de l'espace sauvage en Afrique de l'Ouest . In: Espace, populations, sociétés . Les populations de l'Afrique subsaharienne. No. 1 , 1999, p. 29–51 , doi : 10.3406 / espos.1999.1868 .
• Abdoua Elhadji Dagobi: Les pouvoirs locaux et le rôle des femmes à Tamou (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 35 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou February 2005 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Abdoua Elhadji Dagobi: Les pouvoirs locaux dans la commune de Tamou (2) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 50 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou January 2007 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Abdoua Elhadji Dagobi: Les pouvoirs locaux et le rôle des femmes à Tamou (3) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 74 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou June 2009 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Hadiza Moussa: Les pouvoirs locaux dans la commune de Tamou (4) (=  Etudes et Travaux du LASDEL . No. 82 ). LASDEL, Niamey / Parakou November 2009 ( lasdel.net [PDF]).
• Benoît Huraut: Histoire du peuplement, pratiques pastorales et dynamique du paysage en périphérie du Parc National du "W" du Niger, au Niger: Canton de Tamou, département de Dosso (Niger) . Mémoire maîtrise. Université de Grenoble 1, Grenoble 2000.
• Harouna Mounkaila: Migrations de colonization agricole et dynamique du peuplement dans les communes rurales de Say et de Tamou (Ouest du Niger) . In: Lawali Dambo (ed.): Vivre dans les milieus fragiles: Alpes et Sahel. Hommage au Professeur Jorg Winistorfer (=  Travaux et recherches de l'Institut de Géographie . No. 31 ). Université de Lausanne, Lausanne 2005, p. 149-164 .
• Halilou Salifou: Perceptions et stratégies d'adaptation des éleveurs transhumants aux changements climatiques (commune rurale de Tamou) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2012.

Web links

Commons : Tamou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 495–500 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French). 
2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
3. ^ Heinrich Barth: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa . Fifth volume. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1858, p. 290 .
4. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 241.
5. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 56.
6. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias: Niger 2009 . Nouvelle édition de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 2-7469-1640-1 , pp. 117 .
7. ↑ Website of the Institut National de la Statistique du Niger ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2012 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. , accessed December 27, 2009. 
8. ^ 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. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8. 
9. ↑ Aghali Aboulkader: 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. (PDF; 966 kB) (No longer available online.) LASDEL, February 2013, p. 11 , archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved September 24, 2013 (French). 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.  
10. ↑ 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. 2-3, 5-7 ( 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.  
11. ↑ Airports in Niger . Aircraft Charter World website, accessed January 24, 2012.
12. ↑ Inventaire des petits barrages du Niger . Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), December 1996, p. 5–6 ( repository.uneca.org [PDF; accessed September 23, 2018]).