Zaynab Alkali (born 1950 Tura-Wazila, Borno State) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer. She is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria. Alkali was born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State in 1950. She graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973.[4] She obtained a doctorate in African Studies in the same university and became the principal of Sakera Girls' boarding school. She went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria. She rose to be a dean in the Faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi where she taught creative writing. She is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.
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