Mariama Hima

Mariama Hima Yankori (born 1951, Niamey) is a Nigerien film director, ethnologist and politician.

[1][2] In 1973, she left for France and studied ethnolinguistics at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.

[4] After shooting most of her films, Hima worked in total over a decade as a conservator at the National Museum of Niger in Niamey,[5] where between 1992 and 1996 she served as the director.

[2][7] In 1996, Hima was appointed the State Secretary of Promotion of Women and Protection of Children by president Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara.

[2] Hima is the Chevalier and the Grand Officier of the National Order of Merit and the Commandeur of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Building at the National Museum in Niamey, where Hima was the director from 1992–1996.