Lagos: Making The Case For Nigeria
January 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on how the former capital city of Nigeria, under the mentorship of then Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, fought back against its financial exclusion to become a thriving hub of tax-paying citizens and businesses, attracting global investors. Can it be the bedrock of Tinubu’s national project? Lagos eats […]
Read more »How the UAE is Making a Splash in Indonesia’s Clean Energy Sector
January 18th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Masdar’s willingness to work within the constraints of the country’s political economy offers important lessons for the U.S.-backed Just Energy Transition Partnership: In November of last year, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo officially inaugurated the Cirata solar farm in West Java. Built on a reservoir using thousands of floating photovoltaic […]
Read more »Africa’s Top Smartphone Seller Transsion Is The World’s Fastest Growing Phone Maker
January 18th, 2024
Via Semafor, a report on the world’s fastest growing phone maker: Transsion, the top smartphone seller in Africa, posted the highest annual growth in smartphone shipments in 2023 of the top five phone makers in the world. The Shenzhen, China company shipped 95 million units of smartphones last year, 30.8% more than it did in 2022, according […]
Read more »Dubai Investments Enters Angola with Mixed-Use Development
January 18th, 2024
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on Dubai Investments interest in Angola: UAE-based multi-asset investment group, Dubai Investments, has announced plans to develop an integrated residential, commercial and industrial hub in Angola. The project – Dubai Investments Park (DIP) – represents the company’s first in Africa and will be built on 2,000 hectares in the […]
Read more »The Need for Speed: Why China and India Are Fast-Tracking Their Own Top Gun Remakes
January 17th, 2024
Via The Guardian, commentary on why the world’s new superpowers have fallen for blockbuster air force films. But can they be anything more than military propaganda? In an era of rising global tension, there are a few status symbols the self-respecting global superpower can’t do without. Nuclear weapons? Sure. A space programme? Natch. But the […]
Read more »The Politics of Green Hydrogen Cooperation in North Africa
January 17th, 2024
Via EnergyCentral, a report on the politics of North Africa’s green hydrogen industry in Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: Europe’s growing interest in securing green hydrogen from North Africa is part of a strategic effort to enhance its energy security. The promise of green hydrogen projects in Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania is substantial, offering economic growth […]
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.