MEET first female novelist from Northern Nigeria, Zainab Alkali …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
Zainab 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 at the same university and became the principal of Shekara 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…
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