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  • TaleHausa Tales and TraditionsLitafi na tatsuniyoyi na HausaFrank Edgar · 1911Hausa tales and traditions written down by their own storytellers, at the beginning of colonial occupation.Literature
  • NarrativeGrandes Eaux noiresIbrahim Issa · 1959not translated into EnglishAn unclassifiable text, neither novel nor chronicle, which remained unobtainable for decades before being reissued.Literature
  • NarrativeKotia-NimaBoubou Hama · 1968not translated into EnglishA Songhay childhood under colonisation, up to the discovery of the French school.Literature
  • CinemaCabascaboOumarou Ganda · 1969The return of a former rifleman from Indochina, played by the filmmaker who had himself fought in that war.Cinema
  • TheatreLe Dieu impôtAbdourahamane Soli · 1973not translated into EnglishA play about taxation, written by a magistrate, in a country where the head tax introduced by colonisation had only just disappeared.Literature
  • CinemaToulaMoustapha Alassane · 1973A Songhay legend of drought and sacrifice, in which water is paid for with a human life.Cinema
  • TheatreTanimouneAndré Salifou · 1973not translated into EnglishA Nigerien historical drama, written by the historian of the sultanate of Zinder on the reign of a sultan.Literature
  • CinemaL'Étoile noireDjingarey Maïga · 1975The first feature film by a self-taught filmmaker, on the divide between two ways of living in the Niamey of the seventies.Cinema
  • NovelGros planIdé Oumarou · 1977not translated into EnglishA novel about power and its elites in the Africa of independence, drawing on direct experience of ministerial cabinets and administrations.Literature
  • NovelQuinze ans, ça suffit !Amadou Ousmane · 1977not translated into EnglishA book of drought and courtroom, in which the Sahelian famine serves as the backdrop to an indictment of a political class.Literature
  • CinemaGossiGatta Abdourahamane · 1979A film of custom produced by the national television of Niger, which records an initiation rite for marriage.Cinema
  • NovelSarraouniaAbdoulaye Mamani · 1980not translated into EnglishThe resistance of a queen of the Azna country to the bloodiest of the French columns in the Sahel.Literature
  • CinemaWasan KaraInoussa Ousseini · 1980A short documentary on a village custom that each year re-enacts, while mocking it, a scene from public life.Cinema
  • NovelCaprices du destinHalilou Sabbo Mahamadou · 1981not translated into EnglishA novel of resistance and cunning, from the colony to the first elections, written by a school inspector.Literature
  • CinemaSi les cavaliers…Mamane Bakabé · 1982An epic of resistance to the French conquest, drawn from a Nigerien play devoted to the sultanate of Damagaram.Cinema
  • CinemaLe Médecin de GafiréMoustapha Diop · 1982A Sahelian co-production that sets medicine from the European schools face to face with that of the bush healers, without ruling the latter wrong.Cinema
  • PoetryCaravane de la soifHawad · 1985not translated into EnglishThe thirst and wandering of a nomadic people, in poems written in Tamajaq and calligraphed in Tifinagh.Literature
  • Short filmFalawMariama Hima · 1985A short Nigerien documentary on an aluminium smelter in Niamey, by the country's first woman director.Cinema
  • NovelLa Camisole de pailleAdamou Idé · 1987not translated into EnglishA first novel of village and drought, in which marriage collides with what families demand and with what the land no longer yields.Literature