# Talk:Niamey

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There used to be a different article here. Why was it changed?
A few corrections need to be made:
- Most of the city is on the left bank, not the right bank. The university is on the right bank, not the left bank.
- A person from Niger is called a Nigerien or a Nigérien, not a Nigerian. This is an important distinction!
Niger has an important "French and Nigérien Cultural Centre", not Nigerian.
- The famous tree at the Museum is spelled "Tree of Ténéré" not "Tree of Tenéré".
- Historically peanuts were once important as an export crop, but not many people grow peanuts around Niamey today.
The main crop is (and always has been) millet. Rice is also grown in Niamey. 
But I do not know the statistics or references for what crops are grown or exported today.

Ok, I've made the changes I mentioned.

For a country's capital city, a stub is very poor coverage by the standards of the English Wikipedia in December 2007.--h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 01:41, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

A city of 1.3 million people and the main photo shows some street in the suburbs???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.108.212.170 (talk) 21:04, 13 February 2014 (UTC) 

Actually, that's in the center of town. But I agree. There should be a much better photo. That one is mostly shrubbery. --seberle (talk) 13:11, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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I think it may be best if the Niamey Capital District article is merged into this one, in line with other similar entities such as Delhi Capital Region or Bamako Region.
WisDom-UK (talk) 18:45, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

  Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

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@Seberle recently added a citation needed tag on the statement that Hausa people comprise a majority of Niamey's population. In their edit, they noted that a survey listed the Zarma as the majority. Seberle, what survey is this referring to? I can rewrite the statement if sources disagree with it. I wrote the statement based on sources by Scott M. Youngstedt, who said he may be the first person to make the claim. Youngstedt's work is partly anecdotal, so I could rewrite the statement to say "According to Scott M. Youngstedt". — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 22:14, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

That might be good to cite it that way. What did Youngstedt base his claim on? If it is just anecdotal, we need to say that.
I no longer have access to the survey, but it was more than an anecdote. It appears to have been a well-done survey of residents, including which languages they understood. (More residents understood Zarma than Hausa, which has also been my experience living in Niamey.) But the survey I saw was also quite old, so the situation may well have changed. seberle (talk) 01:25, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Youngstedt 2004 says:
I believe I am the first to report this demographic shift. This is an educated estimate, drawing from discussions with local scholars, the opinions of a wide range of migrants, and my own observations. National census reports are untrustworthy, the city's population varies considerably on a seasonal basis, and I have encountered no current estimates of the ethnic composition of Niamey.
In later works by Youngstedt, he simply states that the Hausa are the majority without any caveats, which is why I thought it was fine to say in wikivoice. But he appears to be the only author stating this, so I have rewritten the statement to attribute it to him. Let me know if you ever find that survey so we can determine how to put the information in the article. (I will note Youngstedt's point that the population is seasonal—perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting statements.) — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:47, 29 August 2025 (UTC)