Magic Hour
Chelsea Nahai Awang@chelseaawang911330
16 days ago
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Picture gallant men, tall on elaborate horses; women in pretty, woven reds, greens and gold's hauling Nono in calabashes carried on the head; the haunting, elegant scream of the kakaaki over a red, dusty savannah. This is Adamawa state, Nigeria, and I, Chelsea Nahai Awang, am your tour guide.
They say that blue hour, the minutes, during sunset, before the sun is fully submerged in the horizon, are magical. I never understood this when I live in other states of Nigeria where the sun merely rose at set with simplicity, but coming to Adamawa changed things for me.
If I had to use one word to describe the sunsets of Adamawa state, I would use, 'Red'. The sky bleeds into such a deep ochre that you feel the atmosphere is expanding -it cannot be captured on camera-I have tried and my phone dulled the magic. The red bathes your skin when you step out into it and it equally bathes the earth. You might be mistaken to think Armageddon has come. The photo used in this post was taken by a Facebook netizen, Amb Mustapha Yusuf Olatunji, of a sunset in Damare, Adamawa, but I promise that, as beautiful as it is in picture, it is more breathtaking in person. The season where the sunset is reddest is rainy season so I implore you to come over and check it out!
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