Africa: Too Many Businesses, Too Little Business
January 9th, 2025
Via The Economist, commentary on Africa’s business structure: African policymakers love to champion their continent’s entrepreneurs. For Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, small and medium enterprises are the “backbone of Africa’s economy”. “We must support the youth to go beyond looking for jobs,” says Akinwumi Adesina, the head of the African Development Bank (afdb). Such bigwigs like […]
Read more »The Capitalist Revolution Africa Needs
January 9th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at Africa’s economic future: In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its share of the world’s population is expected to reach 21%, up from 13% in 2000, 9% in 1950 and 11% in 1800. As the rest […]
Read more »Mapping Africa’s Connections: Roads, Railways, Ports, and Infrastructure Projects
December 28th, 2024
Via an interesting LinkedIn post from JG & Polo Infrastructure, a look at how Africa is experiencing a transformative era of infrastructure development, connecting regions like never before. From transcontinental highways to modern railways, mega ports, and bustling airports, these projects are laying the foundation for economic growth and integration across the continent. Here’s a […]
Read more »Experts Consider US Approach to Africa’s Critical Minerals Under Trump
December 13th, 2024
Via S&P Global, a report on potential US approaches to Africa’s critical minerals under Trump: HIGHLIGHTS Trump’s commitment to strengthening global critical mineral supply chains uncertain US International Development Finance Corporation helping to fund Lobito Corridor First Trump term saw several critical minerals investment instruments established As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the […]
Read more »Latin America Is About to Become a Priority for U.S. Foreign Policy
December 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on President Trump’s likely prioritization of Latin America, disrupting what some have called three decades of “benign neglect”: While traveling throughout Latin America in recent years, visitors heard the same refrain: Washington isn’t paying enough attention to the region. Business leaders, academics, and politicians on both the left and the […]
Read more »Africa Infrastructure Funder Sees $3 Billion of Projects in 2025
December 10th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Africa Finance Corporations’s plans to invest more than $3B in projects across the continent in 2025: AFC looks for agricultural, electrification initiatives CEO sees projects linked to Africa trade area as opportunities Africa Finance Corp. plans to invest more than $3 billion in projects across the continent next year to boost […]
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.