When I talk to UK CEOs about expanding into Lusophone Africa, many of them get immediately anxious about Angola's regulatory complexity or Mozambique's scale of operation. My response: start with Cabo Verde. Not because Cabo Verde is the biggest opportunity. But because it is the most accessible gateway into the PALOP world — and gateways compound. Here is why Cabo Verde works as a first step: Political stability. Cabo Verde has had peaceful democratic transitions for decades