Mamane Barka

{{Short description|Nigerien musician (died 2018)}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| birth_name = Malam Mamane Barka

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| image = Malam Maman Barka.jpg

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| image_size = 300px

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| caption =Malam Mamane Barka playing an ngurmi African lute.

| birth_date = 1958/1959

| birth_place = Tesker, Niger

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| death_date = {{Death date and given age|2018|11|21|59|df=y}}

| death_place = Niamey, Niger

| instrument = Biram, Ngurumi

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| label = World Music Network

| occupation = Musician

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Malam Mamane Barka (1958/1959 – 21 November 2018) was a Nigerien musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp.{{cite web|last1=Sole|first1=Deanne|title=Mamane Barka: Introducing Mamane Barka|url=https://www.popmatters.com/93025-mamane-barka-introducing-mamane-barka-2496019943.html|website=Pop Matters|accessdate=4 February 2018|date=18 May 2009 |quote= A biram looks like a small canoe with hide stretched and bound over the top. The instrument’s five strings are attached to a point at the centre of this canoe and radiate outward like a triangular sail fastened to a ‘mast’ that comes out of the prow of the boat and moves up and back with a curve...this instrument belongs to, the Boudouma or Buduma, are “fishing nomads,” and it likens the shape of the biram to that of the shallow, narrow boat known as the pirogue.}} He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59.{{Cite web|url=http://news.aniamey.com/h/89128.html|title=Décès du musicien Mamane Mallam Barka ce mercredi à Niamey|website=aniamey.com|language=French|access-date=26 November 2018}}