Antoinette Tidjani Alou
Antoinette Tidjani Alou | |
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Tidjani Alou in 2012 | |
| Born | Jamaica |
| Citizenship | Niger |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and academic |
| Known for | Research into women's writing of the Sahel |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of the West Indies Bordeaux Montaigne University |
| Thesis | Le premier théâtre claudélien : naissance du drame et drame de la naissance (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jack Corzani |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Abdou Moumouni University |
Antoinette Tidjani Alou is a Jamaican-Nigerien academic, film-maker and writer, whose work focuses on the constructions of Sahelian identity in written and oral literature, as well as women in Sahelian identities. She published a novel On m'appelle Nina in 2016 and a collection of poems with a memoir Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories in 2017. She is a lecturer in Comparative Literature and in 2016 was appointed Coordinator of the Arts and Culture Department at Abdou Moumouni University in Niger.