Hi Sean,
I'm certainly looking at Gabon as a favoured option for getting the notorious Angola visa. Apparently though, Gabon visa's can be a bit of a pain in thne jacksie sometimes! Generally, I'm going for the 'get all visas en route option'. With a 25 page carnet and a bit of ingenuity there should always be a way.
Re routes, I'm looking at a more or less 'standard' West Africa route, except that I plan to head straight into Mali from Mauri (probably at Nema) and from there go to Burkina before picking up Togo/Benin. The only other deviation I was thinking about was going Niger/Chad/Cameroon rather than going through Nigeria - but that doesn't look too clever, from what I can gather.
I'm leaving at the beginning of March (possibly a little sooner if I can wangle it) and hope to make it down to SA in 4-5 months. Depending on how much time you spend drinking  and doing other fun things, I might catch you up!
Cheers for now,
Andy
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(04 KTM 640 Adv 'Naartjie'/11 KTM 990 Adv 'Tsumeb')
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