Zongo (Niamey)

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Zongo district
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey II
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 2019 (2012)

Zongo (also: Zango ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in Arrondissement Commune II of the city Niamey in Niger .

geography

Place Djibo Bakary in the south of Zongo (2009)
Street scene on Rue NB 26 in Zongo (2018)

Zongo is located in the historical center of Niamey. The neighboring districts are Boukoki III in the north, Deyzeibon in the east, Maourey in the southeast, Kombo in the southwest and Plateau in the west. Zongo lies in a plateau with a layer of sand that, apart from a small section in the south, is more than 2.5 meters deep. The dry valley of Gounti Yéna runs through the west of the district , which has an alluvial soil with a high groundwater level that does not allow infiltration.

Zongo belongs to the historic district of Niamey-Bas ("Lower Niamey"). The standard scheme for street names in Zongo is rue NB 1 , where the French rue for street is followed by the abbreviation NB for Niamey-Bas and finally a number. This goes back to a project to name streets in Niamey in 2002, in which the city was divided into 44 zones, each with its own letter abbreviations.

history

A Zongo is a neighborhood in West Africa that is often on the outskirts and serves as a temporary residence for strangers. The Zongo district in Niamey was built in 1936 near the Petit Marché , which was then the only market in the city. Hausa from Sokoto and former Bambara fighters settled here permanently . In the 1930s, Zongo was, along with Gawèye , Kalley , Koira Tagui and Maourey, one of the then only five districts of Niamey.

A good thirty bag makers from Zengou , a district of Zinder known for this craftsmanship , settled in Zongo in the 1970s. This established the district as a center of leather goods production. In the 1980s, Zongo and Maourey were temporarily merged administratively into one district. Zongo increasingly transformed itself from a residential area into a commercial area in the 1980s.

population

At the 2012 census, Zongo had residents in 2019 who lived in 406 households. At the 2001 census, the population was 4,242 in 681 households, and at the 1988 census, the population was 4,074 in 764 households.

Infrastructure

Zongo is home to the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help . There is also a Roman Catholic primary school for boys, founded in 1949, and one for girls, founded in 1950. The public primary school Ecole primaire de Zongo was established in 1966.

Web links

Commons : Zongo (Niamey)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 0-7864-0495-7 , pp. 335 and 480 .
  4. ↑ Apollinaire Tini: La gestion des déchets solid ménagers à Niamey au Niger: essai pour une stratégie de gestion durable . Thèse de doctorat. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon 2003, p. 76 ( theses.insa-lyon.fr [PDF; accessed May 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 28 .
  6. ↑ Audrey Boucksom: Arts "touristiques" en Afrique et consommateurs occidentaux. Le cas de l'artisanat d'art au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2009, p. 58 ( tel.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed April 26, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 30 .
  8. ↑ Kokou Henri Motcho: Niamey, Garin captan Salma ou l'histoire du peuplement de la ville de Niamey . In: Jérôme Aloko-N'Guessan, Amadou Diallo, Kokou Henri Motcho (eds.): Villes et organization de l'espace en Afrique . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0339-2 , pp. 31 .
  9. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 716 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  10. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, accessed on November 8, 2010 (French).
  11. ↑ 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. 222 ( web.archive.org [PDF; accessed May 4, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Daniel Barreteau, Ali Daouda: Systèmes éducatifs et multilinguisme au Niger. Results scolaires, double flux . Orstom / Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Paris / Niamey 1997, ISBN 2-7099-1365-8 , p. 85–86 ( horizon.documentation.ird.fr [PDF; accessed May 29, 2019]).