Zalika enjoyed the trappings of wealth and fame, achieving notoriety for public behaviour then considered provocative, such as dressing in trousers.[3] However, the Nigerien film industry declined from the 1980s onwards. Rahmatou Keïta's' 2004 documentary Al'lessi... An African Actress portrays Souley's life.[4] 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.