Adamou Assane Mayaki (June 1919 – summer 2003) was a

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from 1963–1965, and a leading member of the ruling PPN-RDA party. Mayaki was born in

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in June 1919. His family was of a royal Sudié line, a

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speaking subgroup which governed the town under French colonial rule. His grandfather was the first French appointed Chef du Canton of the area, and his father was Serkin of Filingué until 1935. Mayaki attended the French teachers college at

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, became a civil engineer, and became active in politics in 1946 as a leader of the

Nigerien Action Bloc The Nigerien Action Bloc (french: Bloc nigérien d'action, BNA) was a political party in Niger in 1955 and 1956 led by Issoufou Saidou Djermakoye, a traditional chief and former chairman of the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN). History The part ...

(BNA), which later became the

Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers The Union of Nigerien Independents and Sympathisers (french: Union nigérienne des indépendants et sympathisants, UNIS) was a political party in Niger. History UNIS was established in May 1948 by a mix of former members of the Nigerien Progres ...

(UNIS), one of two pre-independence parties contesting the 1952 territorial elections. Mayaki was elected to the Nigerien Territorial Assembly in March 1952 from Maradi and was re-elected in 1956. From 1952 he also served on the

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, and from 1953 as Niger colony's representative to the

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and in 1958, after the UNIS split, was elected to the first Territorial National Assembly from the PPN-RDA-led

Union for the Franco-African Community The Union for the Franco-African Community (french: Union pour la Communauté Franco-Africaine, UCFA) was a political alliance in Niger. History The alliance was formed by the Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally, Nigerien Prog ...

(UCFA). The UCFA was a front aligned with the PPN which proposed continued membership in the French Community, and opposed immediate independence proposed by the PPN's rival

SAWABA The Union of Popular Forces for Democracy and Progress–Sawaba (french: Union des Forces Populaires pour la Démocratie et le Progrès – Sawaba, UDFP–Sawaba) is a political party in Niger, founded as the Nigerien Democratic Union (''Union D ...

party. The 1958 election deposed SAWABA (which some other UNIS members had joined) from the Assembly, and Mayaki became a prominent member of

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's first semi-independent Nigerien government. Mayaki had been the Territory's Minister of Agriculture from May 1957, and after the UCFA victory, he became Niger's first

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. In December 1958 he became Minister of Economics and Planning. After full independence in 1960, Mayaki became Minister of Commerce and Industry. In 1963 he took over from President Diori as the

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. SAWABA militants, after their party had been decreed illegal in 1959, launched a series of sabotage attacks and border raids in 1964 and 65. In response, the PPN moved a number of members who had at one time belonged to rival parties, Mayaki among them. He became Nigerien ambassador to the United States from 1965 to 1970, prefect of

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(then named "department"), and in 1973 president of the Nigerien state trucking company, the SNTN. When the First Republic was overthrown in the 1974 Nigerien coup d'état, Mayaki managed to retain a government post, and Secretary to the Nigerien Ministry of Finance. He retired in 1976.

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Biography of Adamou Mayaki
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayaki, Adamou 1919 births 2003 deaths Foreign ministers of Niger Ministers of council of Niger Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally politicians People from Tillabéri Region Hausa people 20th-century Nigerien politicians