Europe and Africa Forging a New Relationship
February 2nd, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at efforts to forge a new relationship between Europe and Africa: Late January 2024, prominent African leaders and corporate business executives attended the summit intended to forge a new relationship between Europe and Africa. It was hosted by Italy’s hard-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who who came to power in […]
Read more »African Production of Natural Gas: A Vexing Climate Challenge
February 1st, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a look at African production of natural gas and how it poses a vexing climate challenge: As a young geologist working for Senegal’s state-owned petroleum company in the 1990s, Macky Sall was charged with prospecting for oil and gas in this West African nation. For years, he and his colleagues came […]
Read more »Can Lagos Be Harnessed to the Rest of Nigeria?
February 1st, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Nigeria’s efforts to create a new industrial hub in Lekki: Successful economies connect their growth poles to their hinterlands. In Nigeria, the Lagos ‘locomotive’ is isolated from the ‘carriages’. Can that change with a new industrial hub in Lekki? Lagosians are ambivalent about the inflows of people […]
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.