Getting off the plane and finding a bus station. It must be four o’clock in the morning. Everything looks like abandoned tile, scattered kiosks, short corridors with perhaps fortnightly cleaning. Maybe not. Maybe it is the dust of the desert announcing itself. Passing through customs and its lack of concern. The curiosity within the eyes of the travellers who remain in the terminal. Like a large bus station, it has a vestibule with bad resting benches. By the time you walk through the doors the African night is waiting for you with its enveloping, heavy heat and slow, hot wind. Unexpected too, but only for us who come from a part of the same world as this one but seems like another.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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