How To Send A Cake From New Jersey To Accra
Via The Economist, a look at a Ghanaian app which hints at the potential and problems of Africa’s diaspora: Some years ago Christian Kofi Adu Vanlare wanted to buy a “really big birthday cake” [...]
‘China Is Not Cuba’s Sugar Daddy’
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Havana’s economic collapse is hampering relations with Beijing: It is the only communist nation in the Americas, was the first in the western hemisphere [...]
How This Conflict Mineral Gets Smuggled Into Everyday Tech
Via the Wall Street Journal, a look at how coltan from militia-controlled mines in Congo is increasingly flowing into global supply chains for smartphones and computers: A black metallic ore critical [...]
Turkiye Secures Major Stake In Somalia’s Hobyo Port
Via The Africa Report, a look at Turkiye’s involvement in Somalia’s Hobyo Port: The port development deal will create a trade corridor between Somalia and Ethiopia and boost Turkiye’s [...]
China’s Ports Edge
Via The Wire,  a look at how Chinese ports continue to outperform their American counterparts: For three days last week, dockworkers no longer dotted the terminals at ports across the U.S.’s [...]
Liberia Signs Deal With Elon Musk’s Starlink
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Liberia’s agreement with Starlink: Liberia has signed a one-year licensing agreement with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.