| LC control no. | n 85144844 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9387.9.A3976 |
| Personal name heading | Alkali, Zaynab |
| Other standard no. | Q167832 0000000028060372 7453511 E39PBJjt7bQQxQ9vywHkVJqhHC 162345 |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Associated place | Borno State (Nigeria) |
| Located | Lagos (Nigeria) |
| Birth date | 1950 |
| Place of birth | Tura-Wazila (Nigeria) |
| Field of activity | Nigerian literature (English) African literature Creative writing (Higher education) English literature--Study and teaching |
| Affiliation | University of Maiduguri. Department of English Nasarawa State University, Keffi. Faculty of Arts Bayero University Shekara Girls Boarding School |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Writers Novelists Poets Deans (Education) English teachers Literature teachers |
| Found in | Her 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> Alkali, Zaynab. The stillborn, 1989: preliminary page (The Islamic family of Zaynab Alkali came from Dam, a village in Borno State, Nigeria--but they moved to a Christian village in Gongola State where Zaynab Alkali was brought up; she is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State) page 4 of cover (one of the first women novelists to emerge from Northern Nigeria) |
| Associated language | eng |
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