Zarma people

Djerma redirects here. For the commune in Algeria, The Zarma live in the arid lands of the Sahel. Many live in
see Djerma, Algeria. the Niger River valley and exploit the river for irrigation.
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The Zarma people are believed to have migrated from
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what is now the Fula region around Lac Debo, Mali dur-
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ing the Songhai Empire, and settled rst in Anzourou and
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Zarmaganda in the 16th century. In the 18th century,
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many Zarma resettled south to the Niger River valley, the
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Fakara plateau and Zigui in what is now Southwest Niger
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near Niamey. Forming a number of small communities,
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each led by a Zarmakoy, these polities soon found them-
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selves pressured from the north by the Tuareg and the
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Fula from the southeast, as well as other ethnic groups in
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the area. While Zarmakoy Aboubacar founded the Dosso
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state from his own Taguru clan around 1750, it remained
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a small collection of villages in the Dallol Bosso valley
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until the 1820s, when it led much of the resistance to the
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Sokoto Caliphate. While Dosso fell under the control of
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the Amir of Gando (a sub division of Sokoto) between
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1849 and 1856, they retained their Zarmakoy and the
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nominal rule of a much larger Zarma territory, and were
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converted to Islam. Under Zarmakoy Kossom (r. 1856-
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65), Dosso united all of the eastern Zarma, and left a
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small state stretching from Tibbo and Beri in the north, to
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Gaadey in the south, and to Bankadey and Tombokware
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2 References
The Zarma people (var. Djerma, Zerma, Dyerma, or
Zabarma), are a people of westernmost Niger and adja-
[1] Flugelstad (1983) contends that we may never know which
cent areas of Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana and Nigeria. groups have split and which groups have cleaved from the
The Zarma language is one of the Songhai languages, Zarma in the period of the 16th to 19th centuries. Regard-
a branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. Be- less, since the beginning of the 20th century, the trend has
cause of the common language and culture, they are been decisively towards disparate groups assimilating into
sometimes referred to as Zarma Songhay (also spelled Zarma language and culture.
Djerma-Songhai). Zarma actually constitute several
dozen smaller ethnic groups, who were either indigenous Notes
to the era prior to the Songhai Empire and have assimi-
lated into the Zarma people, or else are people of Zarma
Samuel Decalo. Historical Dictionary of Niger.
origins who have dierentiated themselves some time in
Scarecrow Press/ Metuchen. NJ - London (1979)
the precolonial period (through dialect, political struc-
ISBN 0-8108-1229-0
ture, or religion).[1] Groups usually referred to as part of
the Zarma or Songhay, but who have traceable historical Finn Fuglestad. A History of Niger: 1850-1960.
distinctions include the Gabda, Kado, Tinga, and Sorko Cambridge University Press (1983) ISBN 0-521-
peoples. 25268-7

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Encyclopdia Britannica Online.

3 External links
Links to recordings of Djerma music on the Web
Article on a single Zarma village and its diverse
livelihoods by S Batterbury, 2001.
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