Who is Sadiq Mustapha?

Abubakar Sadiq Mustapha is a poet, storyteller, documentary photographer and community developer. He works with books, photographs, and the arts to follow questions of social change — girl-child education, gender-based violence, and youth participation in politics — while his pictures stay close to climate, displacement, identity, and culture.

He believes photography can be used toward mental health and development: not as spectacle, but as a way of staying with people after the water has come, after a harvest is gone, after a house is no longer a house.

His photographs and writing have appeared in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature; Isele Magazine; carte blanche; The Hellebore; Ebedi Review; Ake Review; Lolwe; The Nigeria Review; The Shallow Tales Review; Libretto Magazine; Salamander Ink; The Continental; HumAngle; Chestnut Review; and elsewhere.

He is a fellow of the Bada Murya Fellowship and a 2023 fellow of the Imodoye Writers Residency. He was a finalist for the Africa Soft Power Climate Change Photo Essay Prize, and was selected among the overall best for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Nigeria, on climate and weather. His work has been shown in the USA, UK, UAE, Kenya, Rwanda, and Nigeria.