Winditane

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Location of Winditane in Niger

Winditane (also: Ouinditane , Ouinditene , Widiten , Winditan , Winditen , Winnditene ) is a village in the rural community of Tagazar in Niger .

The village, run by a traditional chief ( chef traditionnel ), is located about five kilometers southwest of Balleyara , the capital of the rural municipality of Tagazar, which belongs to the Balleyara department in the Tillabéri region. Winditane is located on the Dallol Bosso dry valley . National road 25 runs through the village .

In the first third of the 18th century, a Tuareg leader named Imerayen, who had killed his cousin in a fight, fled the north and settled in Winditane with his family and some Bella . The surrounding area was populated by Zarma . The village was plundered at the end of the 19th century by the Zarma military leader Issa Korombé from Karma in association with a troop from Mokko .

At the 2012 census, Winditane had 558 residents who lived in 97 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 798 in 93 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 1941 in 254 households.

There is a training center for agroecology in the village .

Winditane is the birthplace of the politician Ikhia Zodi (1919–1996) and the sculptor Issoufou Lankondé (1954–2017).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 419 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Boubou Hama : Histoire traditionnelle d'un peuple: Les Zarma-Songhay . Présence Africaine, Paris 1967, Chapitre V. Le peuple Zarma: ses chevaliers .
  3. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed 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. 237 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ 120 producteurs ruraux en formation au Center d'Agro Ecologie de Winditan. Program de Productivité Agricole en Afrique de l'Ouest (PPAAO / WAAPP-Niger), accessed on October 13, 2019 (French).
  6. ↑ Ikhia Aboubekr Zodi. In: Base de données des députés français depuis 1789. Assemblée nationale, accessed on October 13, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ Issoufou Lankondé. In: PlaneteAfrique. July 9, 2011, accessed October 13, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 13 ° 45 '  N , 2 ° 53'  E