Me, a few posts ago: “I don’t suppose we’ll be seeing a flood of British computer programmers into Sierra Leone any time soon.”

A reader who knows Africa: “Derb—I have noticed a few British holiday homes in Gambia in the last couple of years. I don’t know if the occupants plan to live their year around soon but it’s not too uncommon to see this around the beach area. By the way, I hear South African real estate market (especially around Cape

Town) is also becoming popular.”

This could be world-transforming. Today, Bulgaria and the Gambia; tomorrow

– Afghanistan?