Born in  Ndawara in Boyo Division in the North West Region of Cameroon, Sali Usmanu Mallam is an   Indigenous Mbororo. He obtained a  BSc in Anthropology, with over  10 years of project management experiences across several Civil Society Organisations prominent among which are Heifer International and Plan International. He worked as Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association ((MBOSCUDA)  for two projects entitled : In Search of Common Ground and Bridging the Gap respectively . All the two project has to do with managing farmer grazer conflicts over the use of scarce natural resources. Moreover, he has a wide range of experience in the use of Alternative Conflict management techniques especially between herders and croppers through the building of mutually beneficial alliances.