Investment World’s Efforts To Navigate Geopolitics
July 5th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how the investment world is trying to navigate geopolitics: Attended by prominent figures such as tech billionaire Michael Dell, Blackstone chief Stephen Schwarzman and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of Saudi Arabia’s $925bn Public Investment Fund, the FII Priority conference in Miami in February was one of the […]
Read more »‘Every place I go, it’s all about China’: Former US Diplomats Sound Alarm on Africa
July 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, commentary on concerns about U.S. engagement with Africa:, where many experts are warning that the United States will continue to fall behind China in Africa unless Washington prioritizes the continent: Four ex-assistant secretaries of state for African Affairs, whose combined service spanned seven decades and 12 presidents, gathered together on […]
Read more »Apps Aren’t a Magic Solution to Underdevelopment in Africa
June 30th, 2024
Via Jacobin, commentary on how tech start-up leaders are touting digitalization as the path to prosperity in Africa, but the continent’s economy remains heavily based on exporting its unprocessed raw materials. In this context, new apps are only a way of managing poverty, not ending it. “Africa is a digital continent.” It’s a title that […]
Read more »Africa Needs More American Involvement — Not Less
June 27th, 2024
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on U.S. engagement in Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa is facing headwinds it hasn’t experienced in more than 30 years. Since 2020, the region has been buffeted by coups, conflicts, and crises, with nine military takeovers in the past five years, more than the total number of coups d’état in the region between […]
Read more »Africa’s Telco Kings Are Evolving
June 26th, 2024
Via TechSafari, commentary on how Africa’s telecom kings are reinventing themselves: The world’s top companies are tech giants: Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA. Microsoft makes software like Windows and Office. Apple creates iPhones, Macs, and other cool gadgets. While NVIDIA builds chips used by over 90% of AI companies – it’s the AI engine of the […]
Read more »Africa Enters Infrastructure Boom
June 26th, 2024
Via WhyAfrica, a report on Africa’s infrastructure boom: Africa enters infrastructure boom Inadequate infrastructure remains a challenge, but also creates investment opportunities. With African government committing billions of dollars to infrastructure development, the continent is touted to be entering a 20 to 30-year infrastructure development boom. Infrastructural development is pivotal to all aspects of social and economic […]
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.