Africa Eyes Critical Minerals Boom, But Can It Turn Resources into Real Wealth?
November 5th, 2025
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at how – as the global race for critical minerals intensifies – African countries are positioning themselves to move beyond exporting raw materials and instead build domestic industries around refining and manufacturing: As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, African countries are positioning themselves to move beyond exporting raw […]
Read more »Bloomberg: Investor’s Guide To Africa
October 21st, 2025
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look inside six industries on the rise in Africa’s most investable economies. Global investors are looking at the 54 nations that make up Africa with fresh eyes, not only for their vast natural resources but also for the region’s role in the realignment of trade worldwide. Tens of billions of dollars […]
Read more »Unlocking Africa’s Airspace: A Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity
October 17th, 2025
Via CNN, a look at how unlocking Africa’s airspace could be a multibillion-dollar opportunity One of the fastest ways to fly from Nairobi, Kenya, to Marrakech, Morocco, is via Paris, France. Despite being on the same continent, around 3,700 miles miles apart, the two destinations have no direct flights. It’s not just these two metropolises: […]
Read more »Eritrea: Africa’s Most Secretive Dictatorship Faces an Existential Crisis
October 8th, 2025
Via The Economist, a report on how Eritrea’s sovereignty is under threat from an expansionist Ethiopia: If the past is a foreign country, its name is surely Eritrea. Residents of Asmara, its capital, pootle around in ancient Fiat 500s, wistfully gliding past art-deco cinemas, ornate villas and grand colonnades. These are (or were) the architectural triumphs […]
Read more »McSpaghetti to McAloo Tikki: Inside the world’s local McDonald’s
September 11th, 2025
Via BBC, a look at a new book called McAtlas which shows that the world’s most global chain is also one of the most local, from paneer wraps in India to ski-through burgers in Sweden: “McDonald’s has a reputation for cultural imperialism, but that’s not 100% true,” declares photojournalist Gary He. In his new book McAtlas, He […]
Read more »The US-China Fight Over Panama’s Canal Has an Unexpected Winner: Panama
August 13th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, commentary on how Panama – thanks to its raised geopolitical profile – has a chance to leverage its strategic location, woo investors and revamp its economic model: If any country knows what it’s like to be thrust into the geopolitical spotlight, it’s Panama. The Central American nation has become an unlikely focal point […]
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.