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| COUNTRY | POPULATION | SIZE (square miles) |
POPULATION DENSITY (# of people per square mile) |
| USA | 301,139,947 | 3,539,225 | 85 |
| NIGER | 12,894,865 | 489,072 | 26 |
NATIONAL FLAG OF NIGER
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF NIGER
In 1884, Europeans got together and figured that Africa that was a place of savages and unknown dangers that needed to be captured. So they got together and divided Africa, enslaving the natives as slaves and workers. Many of the original people of the African countries suffered. Here is the story of Niger.
In 1884 the French people started to colonize Niger, enslaving the natives and treating them as if they were nothing and didn’t need to be there in the first place. As more French moved in, the agricultural state suffered more, for Niger, struggling in the first place with its own people, now fed the population of another group. As more and more colonists moved deeper into Niger they were met with resistance from the locals. This wouldn’t stand for the new owners of this land the French started to massacre natives! They attempted to wipe them out, but as quickly as it started, it ended.. Even though the Nigerians gave up, they were still treated like animals. They were used as slaves or their caravans were used to transport French goods across the desolate plains of Africa.
Eventually the Nigerians had their break. When WWII fame a majority of the French were pulled out of Niger to help with the war. Eventually, when the war was over, the French wanted to put the remaining troops guarding Niger to move into a more flourishing African country. So in 1946 the Nigerians were set free from the French’s iron fist.
Even though the French were gone they still suffered from droughts and in the 1973 a drought came and wiped out most of the crops. Then in 1974 a tyrant took over the former P.P.N (Niger Progressive Party), and in 1991 some rumors about some embezzled funds started a revolt against the north.
The technology brought by the French might not have pulled them out of the tribal era if they hadn’t been colonized.
Works Cited
Flag and map courtesy of Microsoft Clipart Gallery
Seffal, Rabah. Cultures of the World: Niger.
Infoplease. www.infoplease.com
Lonely Planet. www.lonelyplanet.com
