Africa’s Lithium Reserves: China’s Dominance and Western Sustainable Partnerships
July 13th, 2023
Courtesy of Inconcreto, a report on Africa’s lithium wealth: The African continent is gaining significant attention as a global hotspot for valuable mineral resources. As the global energy transition gains priority among countries worldwide, the demand for lithium is rising as it has become a critical component needed for battery material production in the rapidly […]
Read more »How Campaign Promises Crashed Ghana’s Economy
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how Ghana’s economic troubles long preceded the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to its politicians’ penchant for overspending: Ghana’s economic descent has surprised many. The West African nation had long been held up as a model for economic growth and political stability. And while the incumbent government has blamed the […]
Read more »This Can Be Africa’s Century
June 15th, 2023
Via ADF Magazine, commentary on how the President of Ghana thinks this can be Africa’s century: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is president of Ghana and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of Heads of State and Government. He spoke in Accra, Ghana, on March 15, 2022, at an event organized by […]
Read more »What’s in An EV Battery? Africa.
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a detailed look at the role Africa will play in the minerals of tomorrow: The green energy resource has once again thrown Africa into the middle of a global resource race. Will the continent get its fair share this time? The rich veins of Zambia’s north-western copper belt have long […]
Read more »Ghana’s Bauxite Boom
April 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a slightly dated look at how Chinese investment has led to a crush of infrastructure development in Ghana’s tropical forests—and not everyone is happy about it: em>For centuries, the people of Kyekyewere, a tiny town nestled in a forest in the Ashanti region of Ghana, got their drinking water from a […]
Read more »How Ghana and Gambia Are Planning To Bolster Their Digital Economies
February 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Quartz, a report on how two west African countries are gearing up for tech-based economies where knowledge is the new business capital: As legacy economies continue to fall out of favor the world over, Ghana and Gambia are ramping up efforts to build tech-based economies. In a time when most economies run by oil, manufacturing, […]
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.