About Amina Saidou
Amina Saidou holds a Master and a Ph.D. in African and Caribbean Francophone Studies from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States. She obtained a BA, an MA in English, and Anglophone Literature (Abdou Moumouni University, Niger) and a B.A. in TESOL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) from Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. She is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies (Sub-Saharan and North African Literature and Film; Caribbean Studies) at James Madison University, Virginia. She is the author of Allégorie initiatique et stratégies de résistance féminines. She has worked extensively on feminism in African cinemas and literatures and has acquired an outstanding expertise in this area. It is very fortunate that she can bring the much needed and yet overlooked feminist perspective to this project, drawing from her well-established and undisputed skills and competence.
