# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ousseina-alidou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:18.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ousseina-alidou"
name: "Ousseina Alidou"
slug: "ousseina-alidou"
description: "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. 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."
tagline: "Nigerien linguist"
gender: "female"
category:
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birthDate: "1963-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump