Zalika enjoyed the trappings of wealth and fame, achieving notoriety for public behaviour then considered provocative, such as dressing in trousers.Yaba Badoe, Women at Ouagadougou: Yaba Badoe talks to three women directors at this year's Fespaco, Feminist Africa, Issue 4, 2005. However, the Nigerien film industry declined from the 1980s onwards. Rahmatou Keïta's 2004 documentary Al'lessi... An African Actress portrays Souley's life. By the time Keïta made her film, Souley and her four children were living in a two-roomed house in Niamey, without food or water. The film ended with the information that Zalika was now in Europe working as a maid, after she was forced to emigrate in 2000.
