Zaynab alkali biography of william

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    • Zaynab Alkali

    Nigerian novelist

    Zaynab Alkalipronunciationⓘ was born into the Tura-Mazila family of Borno and Adamawa States.[3] For secondary education, she attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, Ilorin. Zaynab Alkali went on to obtain both her first and second degrees from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)/BUK, Zaria. At Bayero University Kano (BUK), she studied English to a doctorate level.[3]

    Life and education

    Alkali was born in Tura-Wazila in Borno State in 1950. She graduated from Bayero University Kano with a BA in 1973 [4] and then obtained a doctorate in African Studies in the same university and became the principal of Shekara Girls' Boarding School. She went on to be a lecturer in English at two universities in Nigeria.[5]

    She married the former vice-chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Mohammed Nur Alkali, and they had six children.[2]

    She rose to be a dean in the faculty of arts at Nasarawa State Uni