Full Name: Zaynab Alkali
State of Origin : Borno.
Date of Birth: February 3rd, 1950
Nationality : Nigerian
Marriage status : Married.
Spouse(s): Mohammed Nur Alkali
Residence: Lagos, Nigeria
Language : Pabur-Bura English And Hausa
Religion: Islam
Alma mater : Bayero University
Occupation : Teacher, Novelist, Senior Lecturer, Educationist, Writer, Professor,
Facebook: Zaynab Alkali.
INTRODUCTION
Zaynab Alkali was born in 1950 at Tura-Wazila in Borno State. Her Islamic family came from a Tura-Wazila in Borno State, Nigeria, and later they moved to a Christian village in Gongola State, where she was brought up. She went to Bayero University and graduated with BA in 1973.She obtained a doctorate in African Literature in English in the year 1979 in the same university, and became the principal of Sakera Girls’ boarding school.
EDUCATION
She started her primary school education at Waka Girls Boarding (Primary) School, Biu,
And later to Queen’s School, llorin, Kwara State, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; She graduated from Bayero University, Kano, with a BA in 1973, obtaining an MA in African Literature in English in 1979.
CAREER
She was a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Maiduguri; Borno State. She later left University of Maiduguri to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Abuja for three years before she left for the Nasarawa State University.She spent twenty-two years at the University of Maiduguri and some years in Bayero University, Kano.
LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN
She married Prof. Muhammad Nur Alkali a former Vice Chancellor and the marriage was blessed with six children.
Publications:
The Stillborn
The virtuous woman
Cobwebs and Other Stories
The Descendants
Invisible Borders.
INTERESTING THINGS
Zaynab Alkali is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.
She is a member of Association of Nigerian Authors
She is a former President of ANA, Borno State Branch
She lectured at Nasarawa State University in Keffi where she taught creative writing
Zaynab Alkali became Dean in the Faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi .
Zaynab Alkali was the Principal of Shekara Boarding School, Kanoin 1974-76.
She worked as the Assistant Lecturer, Bayero Univercity, Kano
She was a Lecturer at University of Maiduguri in 1981-83.
Zaynab Alkali was a Lecturer and Co-ordinator of English and General Studies, Modibbo Adama Col lege, Yola in 1984-85
She also worked as a Senior Lecturer in English at University of Maiduguri, since 1985
She married Prof. Muhammad Nur Alkali the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri
AWARDS, HONOURS, LAURELS AND RECOGNITIONS
Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Literary Prize, 1985
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