Zaynab Alkali

Zaynab Alkali was born in 1950 in Tura-Wazila, in Borno. Her father, a Muslim, converted to Christianity after the age of forty, and she grew up between the two. Trained in English literature, with a doctorate, she taught language and writing at the University of Maiduguri, then headed the faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University, in Keffi. She is the first woman novelist of the north of the country and has never ceased to write there about the lives of Muslim women, not only to describe them but to propose economic independence and understanding between the sexes.

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• NovelThe StillbornZaynab Alkali · 1984Literature