Nearly 200 years after my family was carried out as slave, I returned home to the Kanem-Borno empire.
I have finally made it to Maiduguri, Borno State, which is the main city in Kanuri-land here in northeast Nigeria. This is the area to which we likely trace through Christiana's line. I am rather at a loss of words to describe Maiduguri or what it means to be here.
I was born in the last year of the Baby Boom into an essentially all-white, all-Mormon community in Southern Utah. Six decades later, I am no longer Mormon, no longer white, and finally ready to share my story. The map is not yet complete, and new pathways beckon. Shall we see where they lead?
If these words resonate in your own journey, I'd love to know which passages lingered with you. Let's continue the dialogue.