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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...