Today ve are accustomed to report8 9 rural-urban migration º Africa. The sons of peasants
no longº** future in agriculture They leave the land and seek fortunes in the t999* This
phenomenon can also be observed tº 98% j. Rouch (1956) has conducted a study on Niger
migrº" Ghana. B. Hama (n) published a study entitled L'exode rural, un problème de
fond”(Rural Exodus, a basic problem) However, in Niger this is a recent development-During
the colo-nial period it was not the towns, lº entryside which V** the scene of dramatie events …