“I am temporarily relocating to Kumalia.” When Kaka Ali said those words over the phone on June 8, I nearly asked him to repeat himself. I had been speaking to him about farming and survival in northern Borno for nearly two years. Kumalia was where he was born, but it was also a place that most people had long stopped calling home. The community is located within Monguno Local Government Area (LGA) in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. The Boko …
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