My inability to express myself well in spoken words. Perhaps this too may have been part of my training, not to be outspoken. I find spoken words unr… - Zaynab Alkali

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My inability to express myself well in spoken words. Perhaps this too may have been part of my training, not to be outspoken. I find spoken words unreliable, because once the words are out in the open, it is impossible to retrieve and edit them. I, therefore, discovered early in life, that writing is my best medium of self expression and a valuable tool of communication. This started with letter writing and graduated into fiction writing. In my days, letter writing was a beautiful form of communication. Courtship was elegantly done by the exchange of letters.

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About Zaynab Alkali

Zaynab Alkali was born into the Tura-Mazila family in the 1950s. She is a Nigerian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. She is the first female novelist from Northern Nigeria. She attended Queen Elizabeth Secondary School, Ilorin.

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I research a lot depending on the subject-matter. The subject matter informs the nature of settings to be used in the story; historic, physical, socio-economic and political environments, also referred to as Time and Place/Space. For example if the setting is to be a hospital scene, my research will be to observe how the entire hospital management functions, and how medical and other technical staff operates.

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