| LC control no. | n 99275715 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Alidou, Ousseina |
| Variant(s) | Alidou, Ousseina D. Alidou, Ousseina Dioula |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Niger Kenya |
| Birth date | 1963 |
| Place of birth | Niger |
| Field of activity | Muslim women--Africa Literature--Africa, French-speaking Niger--Languages Linguistics |
| Affiliation | Rutgers University Rutgers University. Center for African Studies Indiana University African Studies Association |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers Literature teachers |
| Found in | A thousand flowers, 1999: CIP title page (Ousseina Alidou) Engaging modernity, c2005: title page (Ousseina D. Alidou) page 4 of cover (Rutgers Univ.) A phonological study of language games in six languages of Niger, 1997 title page (Ousseina Dioula Alidou) page [298] (b. 1963 in Niger) Rutgers-Newark Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Nov. 17, 2014 (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) <http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/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)) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2007048875 |
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