Zaynab Alkali

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Name Zaynab Alkali Role Novelist		Education Bayero University Kano

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Zaynab Alkali

Zaynab Alkali (born 1950 Tura-Wazila, Borno State) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer. She is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.

Life

Alkali was born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State in 1950. She graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973. She obtained a doctorate in African Studies in the same university and became the principal of Sakera Girls' boarding school. She went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria.

She rose to be a dean in the Faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi where she taught creative writing.

She is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.

Works

The Stillborn, Lagos: Longman (Drumbeats), 1984, ISBN 978-0-582-78600-4

The Virtuous Woman, Longman Nigeria, 1987, ISBN 978-978-139-589-5

Cobwebs & Other Stories, Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1997, ISBN 978-978-0230296.

The Descendants, Tamaza, 2005, ISBN 978-978-2104-73-1

The Initiates, 2007, ISBN 978-978-029-767-1.

Edited

Zaynab Alkali, Al Imfeld (eds), Vultures in the Air: Voices from Northern Nigeria, Ibadan-Kaduna-Lagos: Spectrum Books, 1995, ISBN 978-978-2462-60-2

References

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