How Africa Became The World’s Largest Market For Guinness Beer
September 24th, 2024
Alcohol brand Guinness might have its origins in Ireland, but today its biggest market is in Africa. Academic Jordanna Matlon has just released a paper studying how that came to be and, in particular, examined the role of advertising campaigns going back to late colonial times to understand how the brand was focused on shaping […]
Read more »New $90 Billion World Bank Plan to Electrify Africa Gets Underway
September 20th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on a new $90 Billion World Bank plan to electrify Africa: Mission 300 aims to bring electricity to 300 million Africans Rockefeller Foundation, GEAPP to help assess proposed projects A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and […]
Read more »Amazon Web Services To Invest Over A Billion Dollars to Boost Cloud, AI In Africa
September 1st, 2024
Via IT Web, a report on Amazon’s plans to invest in Africa’s technology future: As Amazon Web Services (AWS), headquartered in the US, celebrates its 20th anniversary in Africa, the business underlined its commitment to extending its Cloud and Artificial Intelligence services in the region, with an additional $1.7 billion investment budget slated to be […]
Read more »The Young and the Westless
August 28th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how new centers of power are emerging as a new generation in the global south looks beyond Washington and former European colonizers (adapted from Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing by Samir Puri (Hodder & Stoughton, 448 pp., €28.99, July 2024): They came from different sides of the world and were meeting […]
Read more »The Foreign Powers Competing To Win Influence In Africa
August 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the foreign powers competing to win influence in Africa: Many of Africa’s leaders will descend on Beijing next month for the latest three-yearly summit with China. For leaders from the continent, these collective jamborees have become a familiar part of global summitry — and not just with […]
Read more »Mixed Martial Arts’ PFL Set To Host First African Competition Next Year
July 13th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on the Professional Fighters League plans to host its first African competition next year: The Professional Fighters League will hold its first African competition next year, with Nigeria set to be a key venue in the latest expansion for the Mixed Martial Arts company that’s now valued at about $1 billion, […]
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.