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Alkali, Zaynab

LC control no.n 85144844
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9387.9.A3976
Personal name headingAlkali, Zaynab
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Associated countryNigeria
LocatedLagos (Nigeria)
Birth date1950
Place of birthTura-Wazila (Nigeria)
Field of activityNigerian literature (English) African literature Creative writing (Higher education) English literature--Study and teaching
AffiliationUniversity of Maiduguri. Department of English
Nasarawa State University, Keffi. Faculty of Arts
Bayero University
Shekara Girls Boarding School (Kano, Nigeria)
Profession or occupationAuthors Novelists Poets Deans (Education) English teachers Literature teachers
Found inHer The stillborn, 1984: t.p. (Zaynab Alkali) p. before t.p. (b. and brought up in Gongola State, Nigeria in the early 1950's) p. 4 of cover (lecturer, University of Maiduguri)
Wikipedia, March 16, 2019 (Zaynab Alkali; born 1950 in Tura-Wazila, Borno State; nationality: Nigerian-Somali; residence: Lagos; Nigerian novelist, poet and short story writer; regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria; BA 1973, Bayero University Kano; doctorate in African studies from there; became the principal of Sakera Girls' Boarding School [Kano]; lecturer in English at two universities; senior lecturer, English Department, University of Maiduguri, where she worked for 20 years; married the former Vice-chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Mohammed Nur Alkali, and they had six children; rose to be a dean in the Faculty of Arts, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, where she taught creative writing)
Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), Zaynab Alkali, novelist and professor, Nigeria, undated (approximately 1999?), viewed March 16, 2019 (was principal of Shekara Girls Boarding School, Kano; assistant lecturer in English and African literature, Bayero University; coordinator of English and general studies, Modibbo Adama College, University of Maiduguri; she is currently engaged in research at Bayero University)
   <http://www.ips.siu.edu/ISS/WID/MWP/Files/biography_accomplishment/Nigeria_narrative.pdf>
Associated languageeng