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Place of Birth: Maradi, Niger
About Hamsou Garba
- Hamsou Garba (sometimes Habsou) (born December 25, 1958) is a Nigerien singer. A native of Maradi, Garba attended a French-run school for a while when she was a child, but left it to transfer to an Arabic-French madrassa instead, which afforded her the opportunity to sing.
- Her emergence as a performer was so important politically that she was granted a state position at city hall, with wages.
- Besides singing, she has worked as a talk radio host during her career as well; she has also performed with the group Anashua or Annashuwa, of which she was a founding member at its establishment in 1991.
- Her first album, Gargadi, was only released in 2008; it was followed in 2009 by Tout est possible, and as of 2011 she was working on two more, Les hommes de l’histoire and Aouran dollé.
- As a performer she has traveled widely throughout West Africa.
- Her songs cover traditional themes such as love and religious affairs, as well as more political subjects such as public health.
- Garba has remained politically active throughout much of her career, and has been an outspoken supporter of the Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation and its leader, Hama Amadou.
- For this she was jailed in Niamey for a time in 2016, having been accused by the authorities of inciting civil disobedience for writing and performing a song describing Amadou as "Niger's Mandela" and calling for the presidency of Mahamadou Issoufou to end like that of Goodluck Jonathan.Garba's work has been discussed in the book Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger by Ousseina D.
- Alidou.
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