Alkali Zaynab Biography and Profile

Alkali Zaynab

 

 

Zaynab Alkali (born 1950 Tura-Wazila, Borno State) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer.

 The first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria, she graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973 Works The Stillborn, Lagos: Longman, 1984, ISBN 978-0-582-78600-4. Dearborn Financial Publishing, 1988; London: Longman, 1989; Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1990; Longman International Education. 1995 The Virtuous Woman, Longman Nigeria, 1987, ISBN 978-978-139-589-5 Cobwebs & Other Stories, Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1997. The Descendants, Tamaza, 2005, ISBN 978-978-2104-73-1