A girl living in Shinkafi, a town in Zamfara state in northern Nigeria. Most of the people who live her are poor, living below US$1 a day. Hausa is spoken as the first language of the state, which is also the first state to have introduced Muslim sharia law. "Farming is our pride" is the slogan of the state, which is largely agricultural. Shinkafi, Zamfara, Nigeria. April 12, 2008.

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