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Fed up with the way that most news portrayed her home city of Maiduguri in northern Nigeria, Fati Abubakar, 30, picked up a camera and began recording daily life around her. Inspired by social media accounts like Humans of New York, her @BitsofBorno Instagram and facebook accounts have thousands of followers. As a young woman with a camera she is challenging stereotypes at home and in the images that many people see from the area, most often associated with crisis, insurgency and tales of Boko Haram.

Picture shows two young girls in Maiduguri smiling. (Credit:Fati Abubakar @Bits of Borno)