If you want to do business, keep your temper

@mangop

You're not being fair. "Respect other and you will sucseed"? Is it that simple?

What this journalist says is excatly what most people in Luanda feel. It's hard and expensive to get your business started. The city is over expensive and difficult to live and work.

Most people tend to get insensitive as long as they get richer, but it's not a quality. I did make some kilos in the booming years here in Angola as well but I still think we have a long way to go and denying facts does not help.

Yes! that`s Africa a continent which have been strugling and sufering for centuries and centuries. But still, Africans still smilling for all foreigners, eaven when in disgrace.So, to the economist journalists, please go to Angola and help someone in need, becouse there is no words to classify what you can get back from the Angolans souls. On other hand, to do business in Angola, just respect others and you will succeed.

So you need three qualities....
All people living here here have at least one of those qualities. Many people have two and some lucky people have three. Even if you only have the most important one, well life in Luanda can be wonderful with many very friendly people and a land not well trodden. It is what you make it, not what it makes of you. : ) If you are looking for resilience in the face of hardship and people getting on with it in a vibrant, beautiful country then this is the place. Looking for a cheap air con taxi? Try somewhere else.