Ousseina D. Alidou (born March 29, 1963) is an Africanist scholar focusing on Muslim women, and a professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature at Rutgers University.[1] 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.[2]

Her twin sister Hassana Alidou was Niger's ambassador to the United States from 2015 to 2019.[3]

Awards

  • 2006 Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence[4]
  • 2007 Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association for Engaging Modernity[5]
  • 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute[4]

Publications

Alidou published many scholarly articles and books including:[6]

  • A Thousand Flowers: Social struggles against structural adjustment in African universities, co-edited with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000
  • Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.[7]
  • Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Alidou, Ousseina D." womens-studies.rutgers.edu. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "ASA Board of Directors, Ousseina D. Alidou, President serving through 2022". African Studies Association. Archived from the original on 24 Dec 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  3. ↑ Straehley, Steve (3 May 2015). "Niger's Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Hassana Alidou?". AllGov.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Ousseina Alidou, Recipient, 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger". BiblioVault.
  6. ↑ "Ousseina Alidou". Google Scholar. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial NigerChoice Reviews Online Volume: 44, Issue: 01, Pages: 44 - 0481 Published: 1 Sep, 2006". scinapse.io. 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Mueller, Lisa (2016). "Reviewed Works: Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social Change by Alidou Ousseina D., African Studies Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (SEPTEMBER 2016), pp. 290-292 (3 pages) Published by: Cambridge University Press". JSTOR. JSTOR 26409069. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
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