A beautiful golf course featuring vibrant green fairways, palm trees, and water hazards, set against a vast open landscape under a partly cloudy sky.
Once a sugarcane economy rooted in slavery and indentured labor, Mauritius has transformed into one of Africa’s most dynamic success stories. Since gaining independence in 1968, the island nation has grown its GDP per capita to $12,000—eight times the continental average—by boldly diversifying into textiles, tourism, offshore finance, and real estate. Now, places like Mont Choisy Golf and Beach Estate stand as symbols of this reinvention, where foreign investors drive economic growth (and golf carts) across land once worked by laborers. While prosperity blooms, so do questions of access and identity in a rapidly changing society. Property accounts for 80% of foreign direct investment, mostly by foreigners buying houses in estates that come with residency status. Locals have renamed Grand Baie, a village in the north, “Rand Baie”, thanks to the South African influx.