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Mauritius’s Economic Planners Target Africa
October 9th, 2023

Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Mauritius’ efforts to enable greater integration with Africa: Mauritius is trying to position itself for greater integration with Africa, says Economic Planning Board CEO Ken Poonoosamy. Once considered one of the most impoverished countries in Africa upon gaining independence in 1968, the island, with a population of […]

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Mauritius’ MediaCity: Aims To Succeed Where Other African ‘Smart Cities’ Failed
July 12th, 2021

Via Quartz, an article on Mauritius’ hopes to establish Africa’s first integrated, international hub for the media and creative industries: A few months back, investors unveiled plans of setting up a global multimedia hub in the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius. Touted as “Africa’s first integrated, international hub for the media and creative industries,” the […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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