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Mungo Park
Mungo Park 1771-1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi ... Read more
Richard Lemon Lander
Richard Lemon Lander 1804-34, English explorer. He accompanied Clapperton to the Niger River in 1827 and brought back Clapperton's journal, which was published (1829) with an account of Lander's return to the coast. Accompanied by his brother John Lander (1807-39), he led an expedition (1830-31) to... Read more
Niamey
Niamey , city (1988 pop. 398,265), capital of Niger and Tillabéry dept., SW Niger, a port on the Niger River. Niamey is Niger's largest city and its administrative and economic center. Much of its importance stems from its location on the Niger River at the crossroads of the country's two mai... Read more
river
river stream of water larger than a brook or creek. Land surfaces are never perfectly flat, and as a result the runoff after precipitation tends to flow downward by the shortest and steepest course in depressions formed by the intersection of slopes. Runoffs of sufficient volume and velocity join t... Read more
Niger
Niger , great river of W Africa, c.2,600 mi (4,180 km) long, rising on the Fouta Djallon plateau, SW Guinea, and flowing NE through Guinea and into Mali. In central Mali the Niger forms its vast inland delta (c.30,000 sq mi/77,700 sq km), a maze of channels and shallow lakes. An irrigation project i... Read more
delta
delta [from triangular shape of the Nile delta, like the Greek letter delta ], a deposit of clay, silt, and sand formed at the mouth of a river where the stream loses velocity and drops part of its sediment load. No delta is formed if the coast is sinking or if there is an ocean or tidal current s... Read more
Bamako
Bamako , city (1987 pop. 646,163), capital of Mali and of its Bamako region, SW Mali, on the Niger River. It is the nation's administrative center, as well as a river port, a junction on the Dakar-Niger RR, and a major regional trade center. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, and metal g... Read more
Timbuktu
Timbuktu , city (1987 pop. 31,925), central Mali, near the Niger River. Connected with the Niger by a series of canals, Timbuktu is served by the small river port of Kabara. Its salt trade and handicraft industries make it an important meeting place for the nomadic people of the Sahara. Timbuktu was... Read more
Manicouagan
Manicouagan , river, 310 mi (499 km) long, rising in E central Que., Canada, and flowing S to the St. Lawrence River near Baie Comeau. The river is an important source of hydroelectricity. ... Read more
Arctic Red River
Arctic Red River c.310 mi (500 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts. of W Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Mackenzie River. At its mouth are a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the village of Tsiigehtchic, formerly Arctic Red River. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Niger River"

River Niger, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre River Niger, The (1973), a play by Joseph A. Walker. [ Brooks Atkinson Theatre , 280 perf.; Tony Award.] The African‐American father... Read more
Niger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...through the Republic of Niger (where it forms part...into Nigeria; the river also becomes increasingly...tributary, joins the Niger, which then flows...flow of the upper Niger, and it was not until...explorers, found that the river emptied into the...management of the Niger ... Read more
river
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...tributaries, and by a more smoothly graded bed; and the old river by a course graded to base level and running through a...diminishing in popularity now that quantitative studies of river behavior are more common. See also flood ; water rights ; waters, territorial . Important River Systems River ... Read more
longest rivers
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...2730 Mekong [9] Pacific Ocean 4180 2600 Africa Nile [1] Mediterranean 6700 4160 Congo (Zaïre) [8] Atlantic Ocean 4670 2900 Niger Atlantic Ocean 4180 2600 Zambezi Indian Ocean 2740 1700 North America Mississippi-Missouri[4] Gulf of Mexico 6050 3760 Mackenzie... Read more
Mali
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...western Africa and is crossed by the Niger River. The country's terrain is mostly...the country on either side of the Niger River. To the east of the river sits...the S é n é gal. The Niger River traverses Mali for 1,700 kilometers... Read more
Hugh Clapperton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...northern Nigeria and reached the Niger River in an effort to solve the mystery...through the Hausa states, toward the Niger River. Oudney died at Murmur in January...western Nigeria. He crossed the Niger River near Boussa and reached Kano by... Read more
William Balfour Baikie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...expedition to the Niger River was formed in 1854...could be taken up the Niger and Benue rivers...previously unexplored river (Benue) were explored...Africa on the fourth Niger expedition. This...after starting up the river. Undaunted, Baikie...confluence of the Niger and ... Read more
Songhay
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...speaking peoples live near the Niger River in eastern Mali, western Niger...Zinkibaru, for control of the Niger River, and won. But he soon became overconfident...dancers and help the people along the Niger River. Modern Songhay stage similar events... Read more
Niamey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...city (1988 pop. 398,265), capital of Niger and Tillabéry dept., SW Niger, a port on the Niger River. Niamey is Niger's largest city and its administrative...importance stems from its location on the Niger River at the crossroads of the country... Read more
Onitsha
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...000), SE Nigeria, a port on the Niger River. The city's manufactures include...of year-round navigation on the Niger and is an important entrepôt linking traders from the Niger delta with the upper Niger and Benue rivers and with a wide... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Niger River"

Niger
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...locked country takes its name from the Niger River that flows through Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.2. A river which was called al‐Nil ‘...3. Nigeria: a state named after the Niger River which forms its southern boundary. Read more
Brass
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...Brasstown Lying at the mouth of the Brass River, from which it takes its name, in the Niger delta. The name may come from the previous name of the river, Barasin, believed to mean ‘to...Europeans who added to the name of the river the name of the previous settlement—... Read more
Diafarabé
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Diafarabé, Mali ‘Meeting Place at the Junction of the (River) Dia (and the River Niger)’ from fara ‘crack’, thus ‘junction’, and bé ‘to meet’. Read more
Rouch, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Became first to make descent of Niger River by dugout canoe, also began...co-d, co-sc); Les Ballets de Niger 1962 La Punition (co-d); Urbanisme...Mil ; Les P ê cheurs du Niger (+ sc); Abidjan, port de p...x2014; Le Cap (adviser) 1961 Niger, jeune r é publiquem... Read more
Delta
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...state established in 1991 and so‐called because the delta of the River Niger acts as its eastern boundary.2. USA: there are six cities with this name...so‐called because of their triangular shape and some because of river deltas. Read more
Songhay
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Songhay (or Songhai , Songhoi ) A former West African empire on the Niger River and the name of the people and their language, which is spoken in Mali. Tradition claims that a Berber Christian, al-Yaman, founded... Read more
Lafiagi
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Lafiagi, Kwara/Nigeria Founded as a fortified town in 1810 on the Niger River with a name derived from a Nupe word meaning ‘Small Hill’. Read more
Kouroussa
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Kouroussa, Guinea Situated at the upper limit of the navigable part of the Niger River, the name means ‘The End for Canoes’ from the Mande kuru ‘canoe’ and sa ‘mourning’. Read more
Gao
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Gao, Mali Kawkaw A region and a town. Founded in the 7th century on the Niger River, the name comes from the Fulani kunku ‘island’. When the Arabs took control in the 16th century they Arabized the name to Kawkaw which in due course became Gaogao and then, inevitably, Gao. Read more
Burkina Faso
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...country in West Africa surrounded by Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire...centre by the north-south route of the Volta River. The soils are mostly coarse and sandy...and the natural vegetation except in the river valleys is thorn-scrub and thin savannah... Read more

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The Niger River basin; a vision for sustainable management.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 130 words ; 9780821362037 The Niger River basin; a vision for sustainable management. Andersen, Inger et al...2005 144 pages $20.00 Paperback DT515 Traversing nine countries, the Niger River Basin is a vital asset of West and Central Africa. Commissioned by... Read more
New Niger River programme agreed.(Environment)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: African Business; 6/1/2008; 170 words ; ...a 20-year rescue plan to save the Niger River. The $8.6bn project will involve...from the 4,200km-long river. The Niger Basin Authority (ABN) commits the...been increasingly concerned that the river has been seriously threatened by... Read more
Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta.
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...are generalizations, but the Niger Delta is a generalization. As a category concept the Niger Delta is an imaginary construct...peoples east of the Brass River, which is nut geographically...and summarizing, the notion Niger Delta (The Ways of the Rivers...region beyond the Forcados River ... Read more
Ways of the rivers: arts and environment of the Niger Delta. (exhibition preview).
Magazine article from: African Arts; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Allen's contemporaries in the nineteenth century, the words Niger Delta were more likely to conjure up images of explorers...African art. Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta seeks to redress that imbalance by demonstrating that Niger Delta peoples have produced some of the finest ... Read more
Niger: country profile.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 10/1/1996; 536 words ; NIGER'S Tenere Desert could well be the world...mountains of Air and Tenere. Two-thirds of Niger is desert and most of its people make...more fertile south watered by the great river which gives the country its name. Yet the desert helps define Niger in more ways than one. In the mid-1970s...the ... Read more
The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo age-grade masquerades on the west bank of the Niger?
Magazine article from: African Arts; 12/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...who live to the east, across the Niger River. Masking traditions tend to be...over 400 square miles west of the Niger River in the southeastern corner of...among the peoples living along the Niger, for the river served as a major highway to the... Read more
Worldwide Shell boycott.(Shell Oil; Nigeria executes Niger Delta environmental protester/writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 others)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 1/1/1996; ; 663 words ; ...Saro-Wiwa led the campaign against Shell's devastation of the Niger Delta, the Ogoni homeland. He and his colleagues were demanding...a liquefied natural gas plant and pipeline project in the Niger Delta. The preferred route for the gas pipeline is through...business as usual, but how to pull out of Nigeria ... Read more
Oil, politics and resistance in the Niger delta. (Document).
Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 6/1/2003; ; 475 words ; ...has improved. Shell's now infamous exploits in the oil-rich Niger Delta have had drastic consequences for the region's peoples...local communities. The struggle against oil companies in the Niger Delta is often literally of a life-or-death nature. There...corporate players include Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Elf and ... Read more
Economic and cultural prehistory of the Niger Delta.
Magazine article from: African Arts; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...based on the work of J.R.C. Allen, sediments entering the Niger Delta come from three independent sources; the Niger Benue drainage basins of rivers east of the delta, and...to a depth of less than five meters in any part of the Niger Delta. From an environmental standpoint, the Delta can...the ... Read more
Losing rivers.(THIS WEEK)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Our Planet; 4/24/2009; ; 180 words ; ...climate change. Large affected rivers include China's Yellow River, the Ganges in India, West Africa's Niger and the Colorado in the southwestern U.S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...future supplies of food and water. They looked at records of river flow in 925 big rivers around the world from 1948 to 2004... Read more