Zaynab Alkali
Zaynab Alƙali (An haife ta a shekara ta 1950) ta kasance farfesa ce a harshen Turanci. Kuma ta fito ne daga gidan Turah-Mazila dake jihar Borno da jihar Adamawa.

Kuruciya da Karatu 
An haifi Zainab Alkali ne a garin Tura-Mazila a jah

har Borno dake Arewacin kasar Najeriya a shekarar ta 195   Ta fara karatun ta na sakaadire a Queen Elizabet h,da kjiharar Illor.  Sannan ta tafi zuwa Jami'ar Ahmadu Bello dake Zaria, inda ta samu digirin ta na farko dana biyu. Daga baya ta koma Jami'ar Bayero dake jihar Kano shekarar a 1973 inda ta karanta turanci har ta kai ga ta samu digiri na uku wato matakin Dakta. 

Zainab Alkali ta shahara a rubuce-rubucen takaitattun kagaggun labarai, littafinta na farko data wallafa ya shahara, shi ne littafinta 'The Stillborn' a shekara ta 1984, sannan sai littafinta na biyu 'Virtuous woman' wadda Longman suka wallafa a shekara ta 1987, Zainab Alkali dai ta kasance marubuciya kuma ta wallafa littafai da dama, kuma littattafanta sun kasance an fassara su zuwa yaruka daban-daban kamar Jamusanci, larabci, Faransanci, Safaniyanci da dai sauran su. Tana daga cikin mata marubuta na farko a Arewacin Najeriya.

Rayuwarta

Zainab ta auri tsohon shugaban jami'ar Maiduguri Mohammed Nur Alkali kuma suna da 'ya'ya shida tare.

Ayyukan ta

Littattafan ta
The Stillborn, Lagos: Longman (Drumbeats), 1984, ISBN 978-0-582-78600-4
The Virtuous Woman, Longman Nigeria, 1987, ISBN 978-978-139-589-5
Cobwebs & Other Stories, Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1997, ISBN 978-978-0230296.
The Descendants, Tamaza, 2005, ISBN 978-978-2104-73-1
The Initiates, 2007, ISBN 978-978-029-767-1.

Wanda ta gyara
Zaynab Alkali, Al Imfeld (eds), Vultures in the Air: Voices from Northern Nigeria, Ibadan-Kaduna-Lagos: Spectrum Books, 1995, ISBN 978-978-2462-60-2

Girmamawa

Nassi 

 Kabir, Hajara Muhammad,. Mai talfawa matan arewicin. [Nijeriya]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

Manazarta

Rayayyun Mutane
Haifaffun 1950
Hausawa