New Boost for Arab-Africa Trade?
September 2nd, 2022
Via African Business, an article on how – despite centuries of exchanges, Arab-Africa trade currently stands at only 17% of the continental total – but signs are pointing to positive winds of change: While there has always been a strong desire to boost Arab-Africa trade, the rhetoric has largely failed to match the delivery. Arab-Africa […]
Read more »Venezuela’s Gamers: eSports A Way To Escape Country’s Crisis
September 2nd, 2022
Via Rest of World, an article on how some of Venezuela’s gamers see esports as a way to escape the country’s crisis and investors are recruiting new gamers from some of the poorer parts of the country: Hidden on one of the top floors of a half-abandoned shopping mall in Altamira, an upper-class enclave of Caracas, […]
Read more »The Scramble for Africa’s Data Is Taking Place On The Cloud
September 1st, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at cloud based services in Africa: The demand for cloud-based services in Africa is rising, but the continental tech ecosystem is largely underepresented in the provision of these services. While there has been a rise in the number of data centers across Africa, keeping on-premise servers running and secure generates huge extra […]
Read more »China Slowly Undercutting US influence in Latin America With 5 ‘New Factor’ Trade Deals
September 1st, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s efforts to slowly undercut US influence in Latin America with 5 ‘new factor’ trade deals with Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, Colombia and Nicaragua, having already penned agreements with Chile, Costa Rica and Peru: China stands to secure prized natural resources while vying with the United States for allies […]
Read more »Vietnam: The World’s New Factory Is Emerging
September 1st, 2022
Via the Sunday Times, a report on Vietnam’s manufacturing surge: On any given work day, Nguyen* wakes early in his cramped rental room in a boarding house in Binh Duong, the heavily industrialised province that neighbours Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Nguyen is one of millions of Vietnamese who work in the country’s […]
Read more »Guatemala: Fintech Capital of Hispanic America?
September 1st, 2022
Via Rest of World, a report on Guatemala’s adoption of fintech: After a little while in Guatemala City, one particular thing struck me. Every venue that allowed me to pay by card also greeted me with the option of contactless payment. Readers from the U.S. won’t bat an eyelid at this, but, as a person […]
Read more »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.