Santa Clara is very much the average Angolan town, leaving aside the countless hostelerias and pensao’s along the main street. At the other side of the border, Oshikango looks like an American mall strip with warehouses and supermarkets lining the road, all busy with Angolans hopping across to do their shopping. Not only is Namibia vastly cheaper, choice on offer is large, mainly cheap Chinese imports of clothes, furniture, music systems, light fittings and anything else which can be carried over by hand. If this wasn’t Africa, it could be the English on a shopping spree in Calais.