Zaynab alkali

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

Life

Zaynab Alkali - born in the Islamic north of Nigeria - grew up in a Christian family. She studied English at Kano University and became a teacher at a girls' school and from 1976 university lecturer for 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 , was published in 1984 and dealt with the life of women in an Islamic marriage . In 1985 he was awarded the prose prize of the Nigerian Authors' Association ANA. Although her novels are about women and want to contribute to their emancipation, Alkali does not call herself a feminist in the European sense.

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Works

• The Stillborn (= Drumbeat. Vol. 80). Longman, London et al. 1984, ISBN 0-582-26432-4 .
  • in German: dreamed dead and born quietly. Novel from Nigeria. Translated from the English by Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay. Stechapfel-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-908054-03-6 .
• The virtuous woman. Longman, Ikeja et al. 1987, ISBN 978-139-589-3 .
• as editor with Al Imfeld : Vultures in the Air. Voices from northern Nigeria. Spectrum Books, Ibadan et al. 1995, ISBN 978-246-260-8 .
• The Cobwebs & other Stories. Malthouse Press, Ikeja et al. 1997, ISBN 978-023-029-7 .
• The Descendants. Tamaza, Wusasa 2005, ISBN 978-2104-73-6 .
• The Initiates. Spectrum Books, Ibadan 2007, ISBN 978-978-029-767-1 .

Web links

• Zaynab Alkali: Postcard - Rural Market in Nigeria . In: NZZ Folio , October 1992
• Conversation with Zaynab Alkali on the occasion of the Kaduna Book & Art Festival published on January 31, 2018