Trading Chickens for a Fragile State
July 15th, 2023
Via The National Interest, a look at South Africa’s poultry crisis and how trade practices promulgated in North America, Europe, and the UK have a stake in the outcome, beyond the chicken trade, not just for South Africa but many other developing nations as well: Africa is littered with the economic debris of predatory trade […]
Read more »Africa’s Population Boom: Nigeria
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of Rane’s Stratfor WorldView, a look at Nigeria’s preparedness and capacity to adapt as its already massive population grows even bigger in the coming decades: Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world, will be the hub of Africa’s impending population boom. Projected to double its size […]
Read more »From Ghana to Zambia: 31 African Cities To Exceed 5M People by 2040
June 30th, 2023
Via McKinsey, a look at the 31 African cities projected to exceed 5m people by 2040: According to a recent McKinsey report, by 2040, there will be 31 cities in Africa with populations in excess of five million. Over the next 20 years, more than 500 million people are expected to move to African cities, […]
Read more »Bill Gates: On The Road In Nigeria and Niger
June 24th, 2023
Via Gates Notes, commentary from Bill Gates on his recent visit to Niger and Nigeria: Have you ever visited a place you haven’t been in a while, and it somehow manages to feel both new and familiar? That’s how I feel every time I go back to Nigeria. It was amazing to return to Lagos […]
Read more »The Revolutionary Potential of the ‘Lagos Model’
June 9th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on Bola Tinubu’s potential to transform Nigeria: In one of his parting comments after eight years of leading Africa’s largest and most important country, outgoing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned to his distant roots as a politician by echoing—seemingly inadvertently—the views he held of his fellow citizens the first time he […]
Read more »Why US Tech Giants Need Africa
May 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Project Syndicate, a look at – while Big Tech companies are investing heavily in Africa – their poor track record on disinformation and privacy, and their lack of interest in fostering partnerships with African companies, is limiting their prospects: Last year, Google’s Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to […]
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.