As Four months pass following the authorities forced evacuation of 22,000 people and unethically dismantling its water supply, the Muna displaced persons camp in Maiduguri is arguably a shell of what it once was. But Maryam Suleiman, a 50-year-old widow, has refused to leave. This story is of a heritage that never leaves.
Suleiman and her 12 children still sleep beneath leaking roofs of the camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, even as the structures crumble around them. These camps are getting shut, but there are those that find the courage to face violence amidst it all.