Torodi is a small town and a rural
commune in
Niger
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Say is a department of the Tillabéri Region in Niger. Its capital city is Say, and includes the towns of Guéladjo, Tamou, and Torodi. It abuts the urban Region of Niamey, and lies across the Niger River to the southwest of the capital. It ...](_blank)
of the
Tillaberi Region, which surrounds the national capital,
Niamey. Say Department, with its capital at the large
Niger River
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town of Say, abuts Niamey to the southwest and across the river to the west. The town of Torodi lies about 60 km due west of the city of Say and 50 km east of the border with Burkina Faso. Torodi itself lies on a tributary of the Niger, the
Gourbi river.
Torodi has historically been a crossroads of Zarma and Songhay people form the north, and the
Gourma people
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, who dominated most of the area that is now Say Department until the 18th century CE. The 18th century saw expansion of
Fulani people
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, south along the Niger from
Gao
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For much of its history Gao was an impor ...
and the
Inland Niger Delta
The Inner Niger Delta, also known as the Macina or Masina, is the inland delta of the Niger River. It is an area of fluvial wetlands, lakes and floodplains in the semi-arid Sahel area of central Mali, just south of the Sahara desert.
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, as well as east from what is now northeast Burkina Faso. While the dominant Fulani Muslim Emirates of this period were based in
Liptako to the north and Say to the east, Torodi itself was capital of a smaller Fulani state, which persisted into the colonial period.
Torodi rural commune includes several villages, supported by seasonal millet agriculture, pastoral cattle raising, and the collection of firewood to be sold in Niamey.
Niger : le puits pastoral de Diankoundi
audio report (2'22") and written summary. Radio France International, broadcast 10 July 2011. The report focuses on the Torodi commune village of Diankoundi.
See also
* Liptako: the culturally similar historic region and Emirate to the north and west of Torodi
*Tera Department
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directly to the north
References
*pp. 11, 36-48, 59-61, 119, 239.
Further reading
. Giraut F., 1994, La petite ville, un milieu adapté aux paradoxes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest : étude sur le semis, et comparaison du système spatial et social de sept localités : Badou et Anié (Togo) ; Jasikan et Kadjebi (Ghana) ; Torodi, Tamaské et Keïta (Niger), PHD Thesis in geography, Paris I La Sorbonne
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Communes of Tillabéri Region