Archive for November, 2022

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Fastest Growing Economies In 2022

Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economies: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Niger, Rwanda and South Sudan, along with the island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius, are set to be sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economies this year, with each expected to record GDP growth of 6% […]

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How Africa Can Chart Its Own Course

Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary from Mo Ibrahim on how Africa can chart its own course: Africa is a vast and abundant continent. Roughly ten times the size of India and three times the size of China, it is home to nearly 18 percent of the world’s population and roughly 30 percent of its mineral […]

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Saudi Arabia Opens Economic Zone In Push For Foreign Investment

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Saudi Arabia decision to open an economic zone in push for foreign investment: Saudi Arabia has unveiled its first integrated economic zone as it seeks to position itself as the region’s leading logistics hub and attract foreign investment, officials said. Apple has agreed to set up its Middle […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.