Professor (Mrs.) Asabe Kabir is a professor of Oral and African Literatures in the Department of modern European Languages and Linguistics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. She doubled as the head of English Unit as well as the Department of Modern European Languages and Linguistics, Usmanu Danfodiyo, University, Sokoto between April 2010 and April 2014. She has held several administrative positions within Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto as well as served as member in a number of national committees.
Her research interests are in Oral literature/Folklore; African literature, Popular Culture (with passion in film studies and Hausa popular fictional writings); Creative Writing as well as Women and Gender Studies: she is very passionate about the plight of women and women empowerment and focuses her intellectual prowess in the study of the place of women in Literature in relation to their Socio-Cultural background and history. Professor Asabe, however teaches in the domain of not just literature but also English language, whenever the need arises. Her several research efforts and academic experiences have established her as an authority in her area of interest.
Professionally, Asabe is a well reserved lecturer and has presented papers at national and international academic conferences. She is also well published in reputable national and international journals. She has also been a panelist in several books and arts festivals and a regular discussant in both print and electronic media.
She is a member of various academic associations such as: Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL); African Literature Association (ALA): Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA); Nigerian Oral Literature Association (NOLA); Linguistics Association of Nigeria (LAN). Professor Asabe Kabir was the immediate past National president of the Literary Society of Nigeria (LSN), a position she held from 2014-2016; She was the National vice president, English Scholars Association of Nigeria from 2013-2017; she has also been the National vice president II of the Nigerian Folklore Society (NFS) since 2014. She is a member of the Forum for African Women Educationalist (FAWE), an NGO that champions the cause of the girl-child education, in Africa. She is the vice president of the Sokoto state branch.
She was a member of the panel of judges for the NLNG prize for literature in 2016 and 2019. She has also been a member of the panel of judges for the UBA annual essay competition since 2013. She is a member of several academic associations. She is the author of Destinies of Life (2005; 2014), a novel, which has been read, critiqued and translated into Arabic and French and is about being translated into Hausa and Nupe languages. Another textbook, Studies in Hausa Folklore: A Selective Appraisal is in press.
In spite of her professional enthusiasm, Professor Asabe Kabir Usman is a homemaker, caterer, wife, mother, and grandmother. Professor Asabe Kabir Usman loves reading, writing and cooking.
