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Name
  
Ousseina Alidou


Books
  
Engaging modernity

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Ousseina D. Alidou (born 1963) is an Africanist scholar specialising in the study of Muslim women in Africa. She is a professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University. She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and co-edited the widely cited anthology A Thousand Flowers (2000). Her work on Engaging Modernity has also been widely cited.

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Ousseina Alidou Ousseina Alidou The AfricaAmerica Institute

She travelled to the US from Niger in 1988 to pursue her studies. She received her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington.

Her twin sister Hassana Alidou has been Niger's ambassador to the United States since February 2015.

West African Research Association and Howard University African Studies October 11, 2011


Awards

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

    • Publications

  • 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)
  • Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)

    • References

    Ousseina Alidou Wikipedia
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