Culture of Niger

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Horsemen at the traditional Ramadan festival at the Sultan's Palace in the Hausa city of Zinder.
Young Wodaabe men performing a traditional Yaake dance, northern Niger, 1997.
A woman preparing food for a banquet in Niamey.
Young people mingle at the Boîte 2005 nightclub in Niamey city centre, 2005.
Traditional pottery from Boubon, a village close to the capital Niamey.

The culture of

Kanem-Bornu Empire; and the Tuareg nomads of the Aïr Mountains and Saharan desert in the vast north. Each of these communities, along with smaller ethnic groups like the pastoral Wodaabe Fula, brought their own cultural traditions to the new state of Niger.[citation needed
]

In religion, Islam, spread from North Africa beginning in the 10th century, has greatly shaped the mores of the people of Niger. Since Independence, greater interest has been in the country's cultural heritage, particularly with respect to traditional architecture, hand crafts, dances and music.[citation needed]

Group Bombino and others.[citation needed
]

National culture

See also: Public holidays in Niger

While successive post-BA governments have tried to forge a shared national culture, this has been slow forming, in part because the major Nigerien communities have their own cultural histories, and in part because Nigerian ethnic groups such as the

2007
. Islam, practiced by almost the entire population forms an important link between Nigerien communities, as does a shared post-independence history, national symbols, and festivals.

Arts

See also: Music of Niger and Cinema of Niger

Festivals

See also: Cure Salee

Religion

Main article: Religion in Niger

Dogondoutci in the south-southwest, the Kanuri speaking Manga near Zinder, and some tiny Boudouma and Songhay communities in the southwest.[3]

Languages

Main article: Languages of Niger

While

Toubou. Hausa, which almost half the population speak, has come to rival French as most used across communities.[citation needed
]

Literature

See also: List of Nigerien writers

Cuisine

See also: Cuisine of Niger

Sport

See also: Niger at the Olympics

While traditional sports like horse racing, camel racing, and sorro wrestling survive, world sports like football dominate in urban areas. In the 1972 Summer Olympics, boxer Issake Dabore won a bronze medal, and Niger has sent athletes to all Summer Olympic Games held since 1964, except for 1976 and 1980.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ See Finn Fuglestad. A History of Niger: 1850-1954. Fuglestad argues that continuity was more important than change in the colonial period, and that Niger was never effectively governed by the French. When independence came, Fluglestad says this came from the pressure of outside forces (other colonies, world events) not the pressure of a modern political class, which in the 1950s simply did not exist in Niger.
  2. ^
    Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (September 14, 2007). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain
    .
  3. ^ Samuel Decalo (1979) pp. 156-7, 193-4.
  • James Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger. Scarecrow Press/ Metuchen. NJ - London (1979)
    ISBN 0-8108-1229-0
  • Finn Fuglestad. A History of Niger: 1850-1960. Cambridge University Press (1983)
    ISBN 0-521-25268-7
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