Zaynab alkali biography of barack obama

          This paper examines the language and style of Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn..

          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 and  obtained a doctorate degree in African Literature in English in

          She became the principal of Sakera Girls’ boarding school and went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria.

          Zaynab Alkali is believed to be the first notable female voice from Northern Nigeria.

        1. African feminist theory via Zaynab Alkali's The Virtuous Woman and the Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
        2. This paper examines the language and style of Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.
        3. Alkali was born into the Tura-Mazila family of Borno and Adamawa secondary education, she attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary.
        4. The final reason for focusing on novels by Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali is that women writers in Hausa literature are often excluded from academic criticism.

          5. 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 teachers, who h