Mariama Hima

Mariama Hima Yankori (born 1951, Niamey) is a Nigerien film director, ethnologist and politician. She became the first female Nigerien film director in the 1980s, was State Secretary of Promotion of Women and Protection of Children, and later the first female Nigerien ambassador to France.

Early life Hima was born in Niamey in 1951 and studied locally until she achieved a bachelor's degree. In 1973, she left for France and studied ethnolinguistics at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. She got her PhD in 1989 from the University Paris X in anthropology.

Cinematic and political career Building at the National Museum in Niamey, where Hima was the director from 1992 to 1996. In the 1980s and 1990s she shot five documentary films, becoming the first female Nigerien film director. where between 1992 and 1996 she served as the director. In 1990, she was designated the national Director of Culture.

In 1996, Hima was appointed the State Secretary of Promotion of Women and Protection of Children by president Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. Subsequently, she became Minister of Social Development of Niger. Despite Maïnassara's death during the 1999 military coup, she remained the ambassador in Paris until 2003. 1987: Katako (Les planches), documentary 1994: Hadiza et Kalia, documentary