The New Face of Emerging Market Outsourcing: Africa
April 27th, 2023
Via NextBillion, a look at the potential for Africa to become a major player in the global outsourcing industry: The global labor market has undergone two seismic shifts in the last two years: the COVID-19 pandemic’s normalization of remote work, and the resulting “great resignation,” which saw high-skilled employees across industries leave stagnant positions in […]
Read more »The Next Superpower Battlefield Could Be Under the Sea in Africa
April 21st, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how U.S. assistance in developing tech infrastructure could help achieve Washington’s strategic and diplomatic goals by countering Russia and China: Submarine fiber-optic cables traversing oceans and connecting the African continent have fast emerged as a geopolitical hotspot for the West. As of late, U.S. foreign policy has been captivated […]
Read more »Africa’s Lucrative Spare Parts Opportunity
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of AfriDigest, a look at Africa’s lucrative spare parts opportunity, brought about by rising vehicle ownership, poor road quality, and a variety of other catalysts: Mobility is essential to economic and social development as it enables access to goods, services, and information, as well as jobs, markets, family, and friends. But it remains a […]
Read more »Africa’s Diesel Generation Boom
April 17th, 2023
Via Energy Monitor, an interesting look at the fact that at least 17 African countries have so many diesel generators that their collective off-grid capacity is greater than that of the power grid itself: The energy transition asks African countries to do something that has never been done before: develop without the use of fossil […]
Read more »Growth of Africa’s Towns and Small Cities Is Transforming The Continent
April 14th, 2023
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how Africa’s urbanization is making lives better, but not by as much as it could: In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become […]
Read more »Somalia Hasn’t Printed New Cash Since 1991. Now A Top Priority
April 11th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an article on Somalia’s Central Bank’s priorities: The Central Bank of Somalia’s top priority is to reestablish the nation’s currency, which will enable it to take full control of monetary policy, its governor said. Somalia hasn’t printed new banknotes since descending into a civil war after the government collapsed in 1991. Most of […]
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.