Into Cameroon, and after doing my now standard routine of buying a local SIM card, the fading sunlight saw me pitch up in a rather unpreposessing roadside spot (basically in a bush). For all my technical knowhow, I wasn't able to get the SIM card working, but it wasn't until the next day t…

Oh Nigeria, if only you hadn't got off to such a bad start. Charging me £280 for the visa (with a premium rate phone line if I wanted any follow up information), and then in my first hour in the country being asked for 'presents' more often than a dementia ward Santa Claus did not ende…