Hassana Alidou (29 March 1963 − 10 June 2023) was a Nigerien diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United States and Canada from 2015 to 2019.

[1][2] Her twin sister Ousseina Alidou is an Africanist scholar specializing in the study of Muslim women in Africa, and a professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University.

[1][3][4] Alidou graduated from the Université de Niamey in 1987 with a B.S.

Unable to pursue graduate trainings in Niger, she received a Thomas Jefferson Fellowship which she used to the University of Illinois.

After teaching at Illinois, she returned to Niger in 1993 and was a lecturer at the Université de Niamey.