United States’ New Africa Policy
September 4th, 2022
Via the Foreign Policy Research Institute, commentary on the Biden Administration’s new Africa policy: Imagine you’ve just been confirmed to be the US ambassador to a small country in Africa. However, before departing to take up your assignment, you learn that the administration doesn’t yet have an official policy for that country. Troubling, no? For […]
Read more »New Boost for Arab-Africa Trade?
September 2nd, 2022
Via African Business, an article on how – despite centuries of exchanges, Arab-Africa trade currently stands at only 17% of the continental total – but signs are pointing to positive winds of change: While there has always been a strong desire to boost Arab-Africa trade, the rhetoric has largely failed to match the delivery. Arab-Africa […]
Read more »The Scramble for Africa’s Data Is Taking Place On The Cloud
September 1st, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at cloud based services in Africa: The demand for cloud-based services in Africa is rising, but the continental tech ecosystem is largely underepresented in the provision of these services. While there has been a rise in the number of data centers across Africa, keeping on-premise servers running and secure generates huge extra […]
Read more »LatAm’s Biggest Start Ups
August 24th, 2022
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an updated look at Latin America’s biggest start ups: LatAm’s Biggest Startups One of our first charts was about Latin America’s unicorns (startups worth $1B+). In November of last year, we reported 21 of them. Today, about ten months later, there are 32. By far the most significant increase happened in Mexico, where unicorns […]
Read more »Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
August 16th, 2022
Courtesy of The New Yorker, an interesting look at the growth potential refrigeration offers for the developing work, noting that – in Rwanda – it could spark an economic transformation: At one in the morning, several hours before fishing boats launch, François Habiyambere, a wholesale fish dealer in Rubavu, in northwest Rwanda, sets out to harvest […]
Read more »How America Can Foster An African Economic Boom
August 13th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on how America can help foster an African economic boom: In U.S. policy circles, Africa is generally viewed as a backwater, peripheral to U.S. economic and security priorities. That status is reflected in U.S. diplomacy. The last visit by a U.S. president to an African country was then President Barack Obama’s […]
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.