Alidou, Ousseina
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Name (Latin)
Alidou, Ousseina
Other forms of name
Alidou, Ousseina D
Alidou, Ousseina Dioula
Date of birth
1963-03-29
Place of birth
Niger
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Linguistics
Muslim women--Africa
Niger--Languages
literature africa french speaking
Occupation
Literature teachers
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Ousseina Dioula
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A phonological study of language games in six languages of Niger, 1997title page (Ousseina Dioula Alidou) page [298] (b. 1963 in Niger)
- A thousand flowers, 1999:CIP title page (Ousseina Alidou)
- African Studies Association website, May 11, 2020(Ousseina D. Alidou; Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey; member of ASA since 1994 when a graduate student; PhD in theoretical linguistics, Indiana University; work focuses primarily on women's agency in African Muslim societies; author of Engaging modernity : Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger (2005); and Muslim women in postcolonial Kenya : leadership, representation, political and social change (2013); co-editor of Writing through the visual and virtual : inscribing language, literature, and culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean (2006) and A thousand flowers : social and structural adjustment in African universities (2000))
- Engaging modernity, c2005:title page (Ousseina D. Alidou) page 4 of cover (Rutgers Univ.)
- A thousand flowers, 1999:CIP t.p. (Ousseina Alidou)
- Engaging modernity, c2005:t.p. (Ousseina D. Alidou) p. 4 of cover (Rutgers Univ.)
- A phonological study of language games in six languages of Niger, 1997t.p. (Ousseina Dioula Alidou) p. [298] (b. 1963 in Niger)
- Ousseina Alidou is Associate Professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses mainly on the study of women's discourses and literacy practices in Afro-Islamic societies; African women's agency; African women's literatures; Gendered discourses of identity and the politics of cultural production in Francophone Muslim African countries ( (Rutgers-Newark Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Nov. 17, 2014) )
Wikipedia description:
Ousseina D. Alidou is distinguished professor of humane letters, School of Arts and Sciences-Rutgers University. She teaches in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature at Rutgers University. She received a Master of Arts degree in linguistics at the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger, and a MA degree in applied linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington where she also obtained a theoretical linguistics PhD. She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the 2022 president of the African Studies Association. Her twin sister Hassana Alidou was Niger's ambassador to the United States from 2015 to 2019.
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