Archive for August, 2017

Your Next Big Vacation: Somaliland

Via Ozy, an interesting look at Somaliland: When Jama Muse first heard about the prehistoric cave paintings at Laas Geel some 20 or 30 years ago, he didn’t think anything of it. Old rock art is cool, of course, but nothing to get out of bed for. Then a group of French archaeologists trucked in, […]

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Can Uganda Handle New Economic Challenges?

Via EconoMonitor, an article on Uganda’s challenges ahead: Back in the 1970s, Uganda was one of the worst run economies in the world. Uganda suffered through a lost decade when Idi Amin was in power in the 1970s. Thankfully, Uganda’s economic performance dramatically improved when a President Yoweri Museveni new government armed with serious economic […]

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Central Asia’s Silk Road Rivalries

Via International Crisis Group, an interesting report analyzing how the Chinese NSR and the Russian Economic Union are impacting the Central Asian geopolitical and geo-economic landscape not only in the context of rivalry between China and Russia in the region but also rivalry among Central Asian countries: Executive Summary Two new regional initiatives potentially could transform […]

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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.