Kilamba Kiaxi, Angola’s Giant City Of The Future
April 30th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Kilamba Kiaxi, Angola’s giant city of the future: A flagship project of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos era, the ‘new city’, located on the outskirts of the capital Luanda, has not lived up to all its promises. However, projects of this type are multiplying, encouraged […]
Read more »India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms
April 28th, 2023
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a report on India’s Pavagada Ultra Mega Solar Park, a clean-power plant the size of Manhattan, could be a model for the world—or a cautionary tale: Every morning in the Tumakuru District of Karnataka, a state in southern India, the sun tips over the horizon and lights up the green-and-brown […]
Read more »China Holds Upper Hand in Battle With U.S. For Africa’s Energy
April 28th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on how China holds upper hand in battle with U.S. for Africa’s energy: Power generation has become the latest battleground in the China-U.S. competition in Africa, giving resource-poor countries a chance to seek more project funding. Beijing’s investments in energy infrastructure have expanded greatly, while the U.S. has launched a […]
Read more »How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan
April 27th, 2023
Via Philadephia Magazine, an interesting story of how Philadelphia’s iconic sandwich became a hit in Pakistan’s 13M resident megalopolis of Lahore: Sometime in the fall of 2021, a man from Philadelphia came to meet Mazhar Hussain, a chef based in Lahore, Pakistan. Hussain was shown a video of a dish he hadn’t seen before: a […]
Read more »The New Face of Emerging Market Outsourcing: Africa
April 27th, 2023
Via NextBillion, a look at the potential for Africa to become a major player in the global outsourcing industry: The global labor market has undergone two seismic shifts in the last two years: the COVID-19 pandemic’s normalization of remote work, and the resulting “great resignation,” which saw high-skilled employees across industries leave stagnant positions in […]
Read more »19 Countries Express Interest in Joining BRICS
April 27th, 2023
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, a report on growing interest amongst countries to join BRICS: What Happened: South Africa’s ambassador to BRICS (the informal bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) said 19 countries had expressed an interest in joining the bloc, which will meet in Cape Town on June 2-3 to discuss enlargement, […]
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.