Sawaba (Political party)

LC control no.	no2012149597
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Sawaba (Political party) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mouvement socialiste african-Niger MSA-Niger UDFP-Sawaba Union des forces populaires pour la démocratie et le progrès-Sawaba Union of Popular Forces for Democracy and Progress-Sawaba
See also	Predecessor: Union démocratique nigérienne *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1956~
Associated country	Niger
Found in	The yearning for relief, 2013: ECIP t.p. (Sawaba) ECIP galley (independence movement and political party led by Djibo Bakary; name derives from a Hausa word meaning "relief") The yearning for relief, 2013: title page (the Sawaba movement) page 5 (Sawaba, as a social movement) page 6 ('sister' movement in Northern Nigeria, NEPU) pages 85-86 (in the country's first municipal elections, 18 November 1956, the UDN emerged as the largest party; the UDN began talks with the BNA [Bloc Nigérien d'Action]; it was announced the day after the election that both parties would merge into Niger's section of a new inter-territorial group, Mouvement Socialiste African (MSA) [not found in OCLC] to be founded afterwards; the merged party became formally known as 'MSA-Niger' [not found in OCLC] ('Massa' in popular parlance), but in practice continued to be called by the informal designation of its UDN component--'Sawaba') African Governance Institute web site, viewed Nov. 21, 2012: 50th anniversary independence of Niger (independence movement led by Djibo Bakary and his party Sawaba) Encyclopedia of the nations (online), Nov. 21, 2012: Niger, history (at independence the principal opposition party was Sawaba, led by Djibo Bakary) Wikipedia, viewed Sep. 29, 2017 (Sawaba; Union of Popular Forces for Democracy and Progress-Sawaba; French: Union des Forces Populaires pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, UDFP-Sawaba; a political party in Niger, founded as the Nigerien Democratic Union (Union Démocratique Nigérienne, UDN) in 1954; in the mid-1950s it created a broad coalition, Mouvement Socialist Africain-Sawaba, then simply Sawaba)