Zaynab Alkali
Zaynab Alkali (onye amụrụ n'afọ 1950 na Tura-Wazila, Borno State) bụ otu n'ime novelist, ode abụ nakwa onye na-ede mkpirisi akụkọ na Naijiria. A na-ahụ y dika nwanyi mbụ bidoro dewa akụkọ n' Ugwu Awụsa nke ala Naijiria.

Ndụ 
A mụrụ Alkali na Tura-Wazila na State Borno n'afọ 1950.  Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Bayero University Kano na BA na 1973.   O nwetara akara doctorate na African Studies n'otu mahadum ahụ ma ghọọ isi nke School Girls Board.  Ọ gara n'ihu ịbụ onye nkụzi na Bekee na mahadum abụọ na Nigeria.  

Ọ lụrụ onye bụbu onye isi oche nke Mahadum Maiduguri , Mohammed Nur Alkali, ha nwere ụmụ isii  . 

O biliri bụrụ onye na-arụ ọrụ na ngalaba nke nkà mmụta ihe omume na Nasarawa State University dị na Keffi , ebe ọ na-akụzi edemede ihe.  

A na-ele ya anya dịka onye mbụ na-ede akwụkwọ si Northern Nigeria.

Ọrụ 
Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Mahadum Maiduguri dị ka onye nkụzi nọ na ngalaba Bekee ebe ọrụrụ ọrụ ruo afọ iri abụọ.  Ka oge na-aga, ọ hapụrụ Mahadum Maiduguri gaa na National Health Care Development Agency na Abuja, ebe ọ rụrụ ọrụ ruo afọ atọ ruo mgbe ọ hapụrụ ọrụ na Mahadum Nasarawa State University .

Ihe ndị o dere
 The Stillborn , Lagos: Longman (Drumbeats), 1984,  
 Nwanyị Na-eme Ihe Ike , Longman Nigeria, 1987,
 Cobwebs & Other Stories , Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1997,      . 
 Ụmụaka , Tamaza, 2005,      
 The Initiates , 2007,

Ndi edeziri 
 Zaynab Alkali, Al Imfeld (eds.  ), Vultures in Air: Voices from Northern Nigeria , Ibadan-Kaduna-Lagos: Spectrum Books, 1995,

Ihe nrita 
Association nke Ndị na-ede Akwukwo Igbo (ANA) Prize Literary, 1985

Ṅrụtụaka

Njikọ ndị ọzọ 
 Africanwriter.com 
 Ips.siu.edu 
 Sumaila Umaisha, "Zaynab Alkali chats with KASU students" , 5 Jenụwarị 2011. 
 Jstor.org 

Mmadụ ndi di ndụ
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