Gabon: US Invites Gabon Coup Leader To Discuss Transition
Via The Africa Report, an article on recent U.S. invitation to Gabon’s leader for talks: The United States Joe Biden administration has formally invited Gabon coup leader Brice Clotaire [...]
Why Is Saudi Arabia Investing $5bn In Egypt?
Via The Africa Report, an article on Saudi Arabia’s growing influence in Egypt through its Public Investment Fund, which is driven by both economic and geopolitical motivations: Egypt’s [...]
Ethiopia: Abiy’s ‘Elite?Led’ Transformation of Addis
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed’s quest to beautify the capital Addis Ababa: For the past few months, Addis Ababa has resembled a building site. [...]
China Is Striking Deals to Cement Its Role as Asia’s Trade Hub
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at how Beijing’s leaders are working with regional neighbors on the country’s western, northern and southern borders to develop new rail and sea links. [...]
Fear In The Air? 5 Reasons Now Is The Time To Invest In Bangladesh
Via Forbes, commentary on Bangladesh and why it may now be an opportunity to invest: The concept of value-investing, made popular by Warren Buffett, revolves around buying high-quality businesses at [...]
How Africa Became The World’s Largest Market For Guinness Beer
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 [...]

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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.