Birth Place: | Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Alma Mater: | South Bank University |
Fati Abubakar is a Nigerian photojournalist and documentary photographer.
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]