Some people take for granted their social sphere in the west. Oh the fervour of the zealot. You take it for granted that most of the people who you interact with socially are from a similar socio-economic background. Let’s face it boys and girls, many of us have ever lived hand-to-mouth with the people in our own countries who scam on the street and live by their wits. Luckily, when you come to a country like Gambia, most of the people you meet waiting outside hotels for us tourist sweet meat aren’t likely to have studied clay modelling under the influence of peyote for three years at the tax-payer’s expense to get them in their unrivalled position of weighty debt.