[3] Her fiction is written from the point of view of a young unmarried woman, and presents education as "the gateway to a successful, stimulating future".
[citation needed] Her second novel, Victory (Enugu, 1989), continues some of these themes and also introduces questions about inter-cultural marriage.
[3] One critic makes connections between Farida's problems and Islam, suggesting she shows "submissive acceptance of fate".
[2] Destiny has been said to belong to a "tradition of Islamic resurgence, while managing to interrogate the consequence of its rigid application".
[3] Ali has been described as one of the women writers in 1990s northern Nigeria "giving voice to [their] creative talents " within "walls of religion and culture".