Boubou Hama

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Boubou Hama
President of the
National Assembly of Niger
In office
28 September 1958 – 15 April 1974
Preceded byPost established
Mayor of Niamey
In office
23 January 1959 – 16 July 1966
Preceded byDjibo Bakary
Succeeded byDaddy Gaoh
Personal details
Born1906
Fonéko Tédjo,
PPN-RDA
EducationAcadémie des sciences d'outre-mer

Boubou Hama (1906 – 29 January 1982) was a

President of Niger, Hamani Diori.[1]
He died in Niamey, in 1982.

Life and works

Hama was born at

Songhai village in western Niger.[1] He studied at the École normale supérieure William Ponty and began his career as a teacher, in the mid-1920s becoming the first French-trained primary school teacher from what would soon become Niger.[1] As a writer he worked in many genres including history and theater. His writing gained international attention when his autobiography Kotia-nima (published with the support of UNESCO in 1971) won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.[2] His essay on African education won the Senghor Prize in the same year. His histories are said to place a great value on oral literature.[3]

Political career

Hama had been one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN), a regional branch of the African Democratic Rally (RDA), and rose to become a close adviser of party leader and Deputy to the French National Assembly

National Assembly of Niger met in largely ceremonial yearly sittings to ratify government positions. Traditional notables, elected as parliamentary representatives, often unanimously endorsed government proposals. Diori was re-elected unopposed in 1965 and 1970, but overthrown by military coup in 1974.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Un film retrace la vie de Boubou Hama, père de la culture nigérienne[permanent dead link]. APA (Dakar), 2010-04-08.
  2. ^ "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.
  3. ISBN 978-0-203-36126-9
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  4. ISBN 0-300-04045-8
  5. ISBN 0-8108-3136-8
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