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Zaynab Alkali is a Nigerian novelist, poet, short story writer and is regarded as the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria.
Born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State, she graduated from Bayero University Kano with in 1973 and obtained a doctorate degree in African Literature in English in 1979.
She became the principal of Sakera Girls’ boarding school and went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria.
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She rose to be a dean in the Faculty of arts at Nasarawa State University in Keffi where she taught creative writing.
Although, Zaynab writes to empower women economically, politically and psychologically, that was not her focus when she started.
She was a very bad speaker and had a phobia for public appearance.
“I actually started writing because I discovered that when I was in school and the teacher asked questions, I had the answers, especially in literature, but I was too petrified to put up my hand.
So I would right the answers down. Soon, one of the teach