A day in
The cold months on the plateau
Jos gets genuinely cold, which almost nobody outside Plateau believes until they have spent a January there.
North-Central
Jos
Plateau State
9.8965° N, 8.8583° E
A highland city cold enough to need a jumper, which no one believes until they arrive.
About this place
Jos sits at about 1,200 metres, high enough that the British built a hill station here and high enough that the harmattan months are genuinely cold. The plateau was tin country for most of the twentieth century, and the mining left both the wealth that built the city and the flooded pits that scar the land around it. It has long been the meeting point of the north and the Middle Belt, with everything that implies.
Everything from Jos
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People in Jos
A day in
The cold months on the plateau
Jos gets genuinely cold, which almost nobody outside Plateau believes until they have spent a January there.
Field notes from Jos
Halima Sadiq
Harmattan on the plateau kills the contrast by ten in the morning. Everything photographable happens before eight. This is well known to anyone who lives here and catches out every visiting photographer including, this week, me.
Where to go next
Editorial adjacency rather than distance — somewhere it makes sense to go from here.
