provocative letter full of insults; the French took up the challenge, and on 15 April left the camp, marching towards the villages of Lougou and Tougana, where...
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administration of their colonies: in 1898 the priestess of Lougou, Sarraounia, resisted an attack by the French Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou. The...
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novel of the same name by Nigerien author Abdoulaye Mamani, who co-wrote the screenplay. The novel and film concern the real-life Battle of Lougou between...
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Sarraounia (category Year of death missing)
chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day...
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French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. She is the subject of the 1986 film Sarraounia...
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Retrieved 2022-08-16. Flood, Maria (2021-10-18). "The Battle of Algiers: an iconic film whose message of hope still resonates today". The Conversation. Retrieved...
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Dogondoutchi (category Communes of Niger)
mission (Battle of Lougou). After much destruction and the massacre of many, a French military post was set up at Dogondoutchi which was the site of a village...
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1899 in France (category Years of the 19th century in France)
Emile Loubet is elected president following the death of Felix Faure. 16 April – Battle of Lougou, French victory in Niger. 20 June – Right-wing nationalist...
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In 1980 he published his novel Sarraounia, based on the real-life Battle of Lougou between Azna queen Sarraounia and French Colonial Forces. To write...
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Voulet–Chanoine Mission (category History of Niger)
and at Lougou on 16 April he encountered his hardest battle yet, with 4 men killed and 6 wounded. Voulet took his revenge on 8 May: in one of the worst...
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chief, the other by chief of Gbégourou, both customarily empowered to appoint the successor of a deceased king, had been battling for the throne. In October...
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