Mohamadou Djibrilla Maïga

Mohamadou Djibrilla Maiga ( born June 8, 1908 in Kolmane, † November 23, 1975 in Paris) was a Nigerien politician.

Life

Mohamadou Djibrilla Maiga belonged to the ethnic group of the Songhai. As a colony of France in 1922 Niger was, he worked as a young man build the colonial administration. After attending a higher primary school, he was an employee of the colonial administration. For this Maiga long time in the Ivory Coast was active. When he returned to Niger, recommended him Félix Houphouët- Boigny, President of the African Democratic Rally Party ( RDA), the RDA section in Niger Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN - RDA). Maiga stood as a candidate in 1946 for the election of deputies to the French National Assembly of Niger for the PPN - RDA. He was hardly known due to his long absence in Niger and was the last of five candidates. The mandate was awarded to the PPN - RDA party chairman Hamani Diori. Maiga succeeded it in 1947 to be elected to the French Senate. There, the RDA belonged to the faction of the Communist Party of France. Maiga was a member of the Senate Committees on Overseas France and of Communications and Transport. He was involved in legislative proposals and debates on French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. The end of 1947 he undertook with Djibo Bakary a trip to the Lake Chad and to Agadez to build party sections of the PPN - RDA there. Maiga stood for re-election in 1948, but was unsuccessful and resigned from the Senate.

He was then working for the party in Niger. In 1949 he represented Barcourgné Courmo, the offset to Zinder Deputy PPN - RDA chairman, the party executive in the capital Niamey. The RDA leadership under Houphouët- Boigny decided in 1950 to cooperate with the French Communist Party to stop and instead to join the UDSR fraction of François Mitterrand. Maiga did not agree with this decision and left the PPN - RDA. He first thought about starting your own party, but was a member of the Union of Independent Party in 1952 people in Niger and sympathizers (UNIS ). End of the 1950s escalated the party dispute between the PPN - RDA and the Sawaba the ex- PPN - RDA Djibo Bakary politician. Mohamadou Djibrilla Maiga 1958 was involved in an incident in a village between Niamey and Dosso, where Sawaba - close to going off Fulbe and PPN - RDA close Zarma violently with each other and there was one death and several injuries. In retaliation the Sawaba -led government Maiga replied to a post in Tahoua. After the PPN - RDA took power in early 1960 and shortly before the independence of Niger, he was appointed district commander of Magaria.