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Ousseina D. Alidou
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Dr. Ousseina D. Alidou
is the director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University.
She is an associate professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and
South Asian Languages and Literatures. She is a faculty affiliate in the
Department of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on African Muslim womens
agency and leadership. Her new book is of
Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social
Change (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). She also the
authored Engaging Modernity: Muslim
Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (University of
Wisconsin Press, 2005, a runner-up for Ama Ato Aidoo-Margaret Schneider Book
Prize of Women Caucus’ of the African Studies Association, 2007), co-edited Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa, with
Ahmed Sikainga (Africa World Press, 2006) and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment
in African Universities (with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis).
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