Tessaoua

Region

Tessaoua is a town and the capital of the eponymous department Tessaoua in Niger. It has approximately 162,000 inhabitants, is the fourth largest city in the country.

Geography

Tessaoua is located at the junction of the Sahel to large landscape and Sudan is at about the halfway mark on the National Road 1 between the cities of Maradi and Zinder. Tessaoua is largely surrounded by the municipality of Maïjirgui and also bordered to the northwest by the rural community of Kanan - Bakaché. The urban area is divided into eight districts, 60 administrative villages, 48 traditional villages, 49 hamlets and 15 warehouse divided. The eight districts are Alkalawa, Alkalawa II, Fada, Guidawa, Kanguiwa, Kouka, N'Wala and Toudou.

History

Tessaoua takes its name from the Tessaraoua (also Tazaraoua ), a Hausa group, which was driven by the Tuareg from the Aïr Mountains. At the beginning of the 19th century Tessaoua was a province of Katsina. After the Fulani, who had the Hausa Katsina state conquered in 1812, had been ousted in 1819 from Maradi and other areas in the north, Tessaoua was the new state of Maradi connected. The radical Muslim leader Mazawajé was from 1877 to 1880 in Maradi worked until he was forced to flee from the city. He then founded their own city-state in Tessaoua. Mazawajé 1890 was killed in Madarounfa Lake. 1893 founded Moussignaoua, who as Sultan of Maradi lost his dominion, in Tessaoua a new Sultanate, which saw itself as Maradi in the tradition of the former Hausa State Katsina.

Moussignaoua concluded in 1897 a treaty of protection with France. United Kingdom renounced its claims to 1898, the Sultanate. Previously, the line Say- Barwa had been regarded as the boundary between the spheres of influence of Great Britain and France since 1890. The Sultanate Tessaoua still existed until 1927, until the city was directly under the colonial administration of French West Africa. In the same year attacked a group of Hausa from Nigeria, influenced by teachings of the Marabout Malam Moussa, the French military post in Tessaoua to where several people were killed. Sultan Barmou of Tessaoua of complicity was suspected deposed and exiled to French Sudan, where he died.

Until 1972 in Niger only the cities Niamey, Maradi, Tahoua and Zinder had the status of an independent parish. This year Tessaoua was collected simultaneously with six other locations Niger to the community.

Population

In the 1977 census Tessaoua had 10,590 inhabitants in the census in 1988 19,737 inhabitants in the 2001 census 31,276 inhabitants. For the year 2010 161.517 inhabitants were, by an increase in the urban area, is calculated. Tessaoua making it the fourth largest in terms of population city of Niger to Niamey, Zinder and Maradi. In Tessaoua members of the mainly agriculture based Hausa subgroup Gobirawa, the specialist Agropastoralismus Fulbe subgroup Tchilanko'en and especially remote pasture practicing Fulbe subgroup Oudah'en live.

Economy and infrastructure

Tessaoua is the seat of the Tribunal d' Instance, one of the nation's 30 civil courts, which is below the ten civil courts of first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance ) are. In Tessaoua a civilian airport located with unpaved airstrip, the Tessaoua Airport ( ICAO code: DRRA ).

Sister City

• Conflans -Sainte -Honorine in France (since 1998)

Personalities

• Ali Lankoandé (* 1930), politician in Burkina Faso
• Mamoudou Maidah (1924-2005), teacher and politician