Zaynab Alkali: Trailblazing Nigerian Author and Africa’s First Female Novelist in English
Zaynab Alkali: Trailblazing Nigerian Author and Africa’s First Female Novelist in English Zaynab Alkali (born 1950, Tura-Wazila, Borno State) is the first woman novelist from Northern Nigeria, renowned for her contributions to African literature as a novelist, poet, and academic. She earned a BA in 1973 and later a PhD in African Studies from Bayero…