Eduardo “Dino” Chingunji, Angola’s flamboyant minister of tourism, is a man of big dreams. Striding to his office window overlooking the capital Luanda’s achingly beautiful lagoon, he rattles his elegant cufflinks and expansively predicts that in a few years the shabby old Portuguese colonial buildings lining the seafront will have been joined by an array of five-star hotels.

“There will be a small park, places you can go jogging in the evening, restaurants, cafes ... We aim to build 40 more hotels in Angola by 2010.”