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Alidou, Ousseina

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Personal name headingAlidou, Ousseina
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Variant(s)Alidou, Ousseina D.
Alidou, Ousseina Dioula
Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeNiger Kenya
Birth date1963
Place of birthNiger
Field of activityMuslim women--Africa Literature--Africa, French-speaking Niger--Languages Linguistics
AffiliationRutgers University
Rutgers University. Center for African Studies
Indiana University
African Studies Association
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Literature teachers
Found inA 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, 1997 t.p. (Ousseina Dioula Alidou) p. [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 languageeng
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