Zaynab Alkali

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Zaynab Alkali (born 1950 Tura-Wazila, Borno State) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer.[1][2][3] The first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria, she graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973.[4]

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

Edited

  • Zaynab Alkali, Al Imfeld (eds.), Vultures in the Air: voices from Northern Nigeria, Ibadan-Kaduna-Lagos: Spectrum Books, 1995, ISBN 978-978-2462-60-2

References

  1. ↑ Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Siga Fatima Jagne, ed. (1998). "Zaynab Alkali". Postcolonial African Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5. 
  2. ↑ "Zaynab Alkali". Ips.siu.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-29. 
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Margaret Busby, Daughters of Africa, London: Cape, 1992, p. 782.

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