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Mariama Hima Yankori (born 1951, Niamey) is a 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.
After shooting most of her films, Hima worked in total over a decade as a conservator at the National Museum of Niger in Niamey, 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.
In 1997, she was appointed the ambassador of Niger in France, becoming the first female Nigerien ambassador. Despite Maïnassara's death during the 1999 military coup, she remained the ambassador in Paris until 2003.
Hima is the Chevalier and the Grand Officier of the National Order of Merit and the Commandeur of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. As of 2013, she had no Nigerien decorations.
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