Meg Whitman’s Mission in Africa: American Tech Over Chinese
Via Blooomberg, an article on how the U.S. ambassador to Kenya – the former eBay and HP CEO – has made a priority of counterbalancing Chinese influence on the continent: When Meg [...]
Africa To Become Battleground For Global Fuel Exporters
Via The Africa Report, a report on the growing competition amongst global fuel exporters in Africa: With refinery closures in Europe and competition from the Middle East and the US, exporters – [...]
The Political Economy Of Vietnam’s North-South High-Speed Rail Project
Via Eurasia Review, analysis of the Vietnam’s North-South high-speed rail project: Vietnam has had to struggle to develop an efficient railway system due to financial and technical constraints. [...]
Surf’s Up: Riding The Waves In Ghana
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on a new surfing community and industry arising in Busua a tiny fishing village in Ghana. Can they go global? Busua is a small fishing village in [...]
BRICS Keep Growing In A Multipolar World
Via Geopolitical Economy, commentary on the recent BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These [...]
Johor and Malaysia’s Data Center Boom 
Via The Diplomat, a report on the massive ramp-up in Malaysian data centers which is attracting foreign investment, but infrastructure challenges persists: Due to the ongoing China-U.S. geopolitical [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.