Zaynab Alkali

Zaynab Alkali (* 1955 in Garkida, Nigeria ) is a Nigerian writer.

Life

Zaynab Alkali - born in Islamic northern Nigeria - grew up in a Christian family. She studied English at the University Kano and was a teacher at a girls' school in 1976 and a university lecturer of English and African literature and creative writing in Maiduguri.

Alkali married the Vice- Rector of the University and has six children. Her first novel, The Stillborn appeared in 1984 and dealt with the lives of women in an Islamic marriage. He was awarded the 1985 prose price of Nigerian Authors Association ANA. Although want to trade their novels by women and contribute to their emancipation, Alkali not referred to as a feminist in the European sense.

Works

• The Stillborn ( = drumbeat. Vol. 80). Longman, London et al 1984, ISBN 0-582-26432-4. in German language: Dead dreamed of and born still. Novel from Nigeria. Translated from English by Gisela Seidensticker - Brikay. Datura -Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-908054-03-6.