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(Ambassador) Hassana Alidou was a Nigerien diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2015 to 2019. She later became the first scholar in residence for the Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice. Alidou graduated with a B.S. in linguistics from the Université de Niamey in 1987. She earned a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1991 and went on to teach at both Illinois and the Université de Niamey.
