This sun is about to burn the solar panels here!

The electricity supply had been very pathetic for more than two weeks now. And without electricity, there woulb be no means of ventilation Our generator had always been made to work through out the night and now it is out of order. Before the breakdown, I initially thought it had been consuming more petrol than normal. Maybe this was because we have been spending more on fuel and there had been a sharp increment in the price. So psychologically speaking, it's quite normal for me to think that way.

I woke up around 2am yesterday night feeling very uncomfortably hot. My pillow had already been saturated with the sweat coming out from the pores of my head and face. The heat was just took much!

Due to frustration, I felt a trickle of sweat (tears) ran down my face. Before I lost my sanity, I had to come out of the room and sat down on a stool outside. From where I sat, I could hear the heavy snoring of my Brothers under a mosquito net. They had been sleeping outside since 10pm.

The irregular cries of a child in the next house penetrated the night. Just like the rest of us, the kid was also been punished by nature .

The following morning , on my way to buy a tin a milk, I saw the familiar face of the child. The four year old was jumping and smiling outside his parents house and I spotted the heat rash on his forehead. No doubt, he was just happy it's morning.

Towards midday, the kid's mother came to our house to ask for something. She was already nine months pregnant. The body metabolism of a pregnant woman is quite faster than normal and this generates a visceral heat, in addition to the external heat from the environment. The poor woman had already taken her bath twice already even before midday, but I could still see the smooth black skin on her neck glistening with sweat. The heat rashes were also visible too. She complained that she slept on bare floor each night because she feels it appears as if the surface temperature of her mattress had become unusually high. She also felt as if her microelectronic fan serves her hot breeze too.

We experienced a temperature range of about forty two degrees yesterday. By midday today, it's around forty degrees and it might get to around forty three, after noon.

For the past two week, i don't even bother to apply a lotion or moisturizer on my dark skin after taking my bath, do as to avoid getting drowned in my own sweat few minutes after going under the sun.

Infact, the energy in your body appears to burn out faster and you become easily fatigued when you are out in the sun for long. Thank God I work from home, I really feel sorry for office workers and labourers. Lol

I spoke to a cousin on phone who lives at a state further North that'is believed to be the hotest part of the country. He joked that the "sun in their region is firece enough to burn the solar panels".

Fasting under such an extreme climate could be very aduous, to the extent that people simply jubilate when it's time to end the fast later in the evening. Due to the extreme thirst that had been endured for a long time under the scorching sun, One might end up filling up with more water than food when is time to indulge again.

We all know that Africa is hot due to its brilliant Sunshine. Nigeria lies in the tropics, a little above the equator which is almost facing the middle of the sun. From what I have heard, Libya is the hottest country in the world. Sometimes, I can't help but wonder how the inhabitants of northern Africa live through such harsh weather conditions especially during Ramadan. Well, I guess it's all about adaptation.

I can't wait for the rains to start coming so that we could enjoy cool nights even though the days remains hot. Living through hot days and nights is really insufferable.