Ousseina Alidou

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.[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]

  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.

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