Cocoa OPEC on Spot as Ghana Wobbles and Ecuador Rises
October 3rd, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at how the cocoa OPEC is on the spot as Ghana wobbles and Ecuador rises: Abidjan banks on volume, while Accra fights to hold second place into 2026-2027. Belief in a cocoa ‘OPEC’, despite headwinds. That was the mood on 1 October in Abidjan at the launch of the […]
Read more »Gold and Cocoa: Can Ghana’s Twin Economic Pillars Deliver Under Mahama’s Watch?
May 23rd, 2025
Via The Africa Report, a look at Ghana’s economic future: Ghana sits atop a wealth of natural treasures – from the gold buried beneath its soil to the cocoa grown on its farms. But as global prices soar, a question emerges: why is this prosperity not reaching the people who need it most? With cocoa […]
Read more »Surf’s Up: Riding The Waves In Ghana
October 27th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on a new surfing community and industry arising in Busua a tiny fishing village in Ghana. Can they go global? Busua is a small fishing village in south-western Ghana. A six-hour drive from Accra, “it’s a place where you feel totally disconnected from the town”, says Sandy Alibo, […]
Read more »Gold: Mined In Africa, Traded In Dubai, Profiting Warlords and Jihadists
October 25th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at Africa’s gold mining industry: “It keeps getting worse and worse,” sighs Camry Tagoe, an activist in Accra, the capital. “If you look at Google maps, Ghana has turned from green to brown.” Over the past month Mr Tagoe has helped organise protests across the city that call for an end […]
Read more »How To Send A Cake From New Jersey To Accra
October 15th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at a Ghanaian app which hints at the potential and problems of Africa’s diaspora: Some years ago Christian Kofi Adu Vanlare wanted to buy a “really big birthday cake” for his uncle, the family patriarch, who was turning 88. But there was a problem. Mr Vanlare lives in New Jersey on […]
Read more »U.S. Signs Pact to Build Small Modular Nuclear Plant in Ghana
August 30th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on U.S. plans to build small modular nuclear plants in Ghana: The US-backed project would be Ghana’s first nuclear plant Gas-powered plants account for about half of country’s energy The US has agreed to help build Ghana’s first small modular reactor project in a push to promote nuclear technology as a cleaner energy […]
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.