l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

asidikou@princeton.edu

Department of French and Italian
Princeton University
303 East Pyne
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA

phone: 609-258-7335
fax: 609-258-4535

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Research focuses on the verbal art of women, mainly from West
Africa.

Currently working on her next book, The Epic of Fatimata bi Daani, which is soon to
appear as part of the Epic Series by Indiana University Press.

She teaches African literature, civilizations and cinema.

Recreating words, reshaping worlds: the verbal art of women from Niger,
Mali, and Senegal. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001.

verbal art of women; West Africa; Niger; Mali; Senegal