Abuja — It's harmattan time in Abuja - a hot, dry wind from the sahara blows through the city and stirs up the dust, bringing a haze to the air. Nigeria's capital, constructed under military rule in the 1980s, is a place designed for the car and not one that is easy to get to know.
You drive from meeting to meeting without really getting much of a sense of place or atmosphere. The rooms are air conditioned, the conversations (depending on the interviewee) often repetitive and sprinkled with acronyms: PDP, APC, BH, INEC et al.
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