Fati Abubakar

Abubakar was born and raised in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.^[1][2] After obtaining her master's degree in public health and health promotion from the South Bank University in London in 2015, Fati, upon her return to her hometown, took up photography.^[3]

Her work has been published in The New York Times, CNN Africa, BBC and Voice of America.^[4] She works primarily to document the travails of Borno, including the Boko Haram insurgency. She has a project called Bits of Borno.^[4][5]