Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina Dioula Alidou (born March 29, 1963 in Niamey ) is a Nigerian linguist .

Life

Ousseina Alidou attended school at the École Canada of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Perpetual Aid in Niamey. In 1988 she graduated from Niamey University with a master's degree in linguistics . She received a USAID scholarship and earned another Masters Degree in Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington in 1991 . There she taught Hausa from 1990 to 1992 . Alidou returned to Niamey University in 1993 as a visiting lecturer in phonology . In 1994 she was visiting professor for Hausa at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and from 1995 she was a professor for Hausa and head of the African languages ​​program at Ohio State University . She received her PhD in 1997 from Indiana University Bloomington with a phonological study on language games in six Nigerian languages .

Alidou became a faculty member in the Department of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University . In addition, she worked as a visiting professor at the University of Lüneburg in 2002 and as a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg in 2003 . From 2013 to 2016 she was a board member of the African Studies Association . Alidou's research focuses on the language practices of women in African Islamic societies. In relation to these societies, she deals with gender equality , women's literature, identity discourses and the politics of cultural production.

Ousseina Alidou's twin sister is the educator and diplomat Hassana Alidou .

Fonts (selection)

• Ousseina Alidou, George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici (Eds.): A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles against Structural Adjustment in African Universities . Africa World Press, Trenton 2000, ISBN 0-86543-773-4 .
• Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2005, ISBN 0-299-21210-6 .
• Ousseina Alidou and Ahmad Alawad Sikainga (eds.): Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa . Africa World Press, Trenton 2006, ISBN 1-59221-411-8 .
• Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Representation, Leadership and Social Change . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2013, ISBN 978-0-299-29464-9 .
• Ousseina Alidou and Renée Larrier (Eds.): Writing through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean . Lexington Books, Lanham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4985-0163-7 .
• Niger . In: Toyin Falola, Daniel Jean-Jacques (Ed.): Africa. An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society . Vol. 3 N-Z. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2016, ISBN 978-1-59884-665-2 , pp. 912-935 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hasanna Alidou: Afrique. Congrégation des sœurs de Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours, accessed on June 7, 2017 (French). 
2. ↑ Ousseina Dioula Alidou: A Phonological Study of Language Games in Six Languages of Niger . Dissertation. Indiana University Bloomington, 1997, pp. 298–299 ( wjh.harvard.edu [PDF; accessed June 7, 2017]).
3. ↑ Ousseina Alidou. Rutgers University, accessed June 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Steve Straehley: Niger's Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Hassana Alidou? In: AllGov. May 3, 2015, accessed June 7, 2017 .