One morning in March 2017, after the Fajr prayer, Baba Alpha’s life was turned upside down. The committed journalist was not the only one taken away; the man himself was stripped of his identity and sense of belonging to the land he had always served. His brutal odyssey of forced exile, imposed silence and struggle against statelessness began, from the civil prison of Niamey to the dusty tracks of the Malian border. In Dialogue Migration, Baba Alpha breaks his silence to recount how he survived five years of exile before finally reconnecting with his roots.