Future of African Oil and Gas
June 10th, 2022
Via McKinsey, a report on how – with momentum for sustainability building – Africa’s oil and gas producing nations have a unique opportunity to embark on an inclusive energy transition and chart a course toward a sustainable future: African’s oil and gas industry is entering a new era. As the world looks to accelerate its […]
Read more »5G In Africa
May 29th, 2022
Via Quartz Africa, a report on which countries have rolled out 5G in Africa: When Ethiopia announced on May 9 that it was launching trials for its first 5G mobile network in its capital, it joined more than a dozen African countries that are either testing or have rolled out the next-gen network. But just as for […]
Read more »Digital Delivery Transforms African Trade
May 27th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times (subscription required), an article on how technology and a ‘few to many’ model are reinventing the informal sector’s supply chain: Nancy Auma, a 35-year-old market trader, sits by a large mound of finger-sized silvery fish caught in Lake Victoria. Her stall is in one of the crowded thoroughfares of Mathare, […]
Read more »Safaricom, Ethiopian Telcoms Sign Network-Sharing Deal
April 21st, 2022
Via the East African, a report that Safaricom will access the giant network of Ethiopian State monopoly Ethio Telecom allowing the telco to roll out its services across the vast Horn of Africa nation: Safaricom will access the giant network of Ethiopian State monopoly Ethio Telecom allowing the telco to roll out its services across the vast […]
Read more »PEACE Launch: Kenya’s New Internet Cable
March 31st, 2022
Via The East African, an article on Kenya’s new $399m internet cable which it hopes will help it unlock the digital economy: Thirteen years since Kenya welcomed its first ever fibre optic cable, the country has now unveiled a sixth submarine internet cable that promises to offer higher speeds, lower latency and broader bandwidth. The launch […]
Read more »Rich Lamu Oil Discovery Fuels Kenya’s Economic Dreams
March 9th, 2022
Via The East African, an article on how a rich Lamu oil find may fuel Kenya’s economic dreams: Kenya is just weeks away from announcing the discovery of new oil resources in the Lamu basin, bigger than what was found a decade ago in Turkana, in what could be a turning point for the country’s […]
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.