I feel I'm qualified enough to give advice because not only am I a flight school shareholder in South Africa and know what standards we are required to uphold, but I obtained my initial CPL and ATP through the FAA and then converted to SACAA after returning to SA. I also flew for the UN and Red Cross to get my initial experience and now fly for the national carrier in SA. I fly to London quite often and it is sad to visit the local pilot shops and to meet the qualified CPL students who work there, and have for many years, after spending a fortune on their CPL only to have little chance of finding any work to bridge the gap between a fresh CPL and an airline job. Africa has an abundance of jobs for fresh CPL's whether it requires being an instructor at one of the flight schools or flying tourists in Botswana or Windhoek in clapped out C206's or C210's. Africa is still your best chance for getting to where you want to within a decent time frame.