The installation of the first chiefdoms in the region of Maradi played a role in protecting the inhabitants in the face of the insecurity at the time of the Sahara, the same of the chiefdoms of Kantché, Korgom and Tessaoua. The ancestor of the governor of the village of Maradou, sent by the kingdom of Katsina, would have taken the title of Maradi. A local tradition speaks of an occult goddess, Queen Maradi, a protector of the region, hence the motto: «Maradi protector of men, whoever wants to, if he stays at Maradi, protects us». At the beginning of the th century, this hausa region underwent great upheaval that created the present society. Fulani nomadic pastors have come to be peacefully integrated into hausa farmers, and others whose scholars Muslims from Mali have integrated into the hausa cities. This is how the princes of the Gobir chose Ousman Dan Fodio as a tutor. The practices of the court were not in line with Islam taught by Dan Fodio, the latter would have challenged them and would have been forced to leave the princes. With the help of other Fulani, the inhabitants sollicitèrent the help of their chief refugee in Zinder. Aided by Kano troops, Celles chased the Fulani of Dan Fodio from the Maradi region. Ousman Dan Fodio seized Birni N'Konni, which he burned at the end of a terrible battle. The Hausa recapture allows the establishment of a new capital in Tibiri, 12 km from Maradi, attracting the subjects of the old hausa states. The town of Maradi, with 500 000 inhabitants today, is built on the edge of a oued: The Goulbi N'Maradi, the fertile shore, which only runs from June to October. Its main bed can be flooded with a width of 2 to 5 km. It is the spillway of Lake Madarounfa 25 km south and comes from Nigeria to return after a 150 km loop in Niger. From Maradi to Zinder, the south is a succession of large plateaus at 350 m above sea level with effleurements effleurements where millet is grown, while the north is made of dunes where rich pastures grow.

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