Pakistan: The Rooftop Energy Revolution No One Knew About
September 17th, 2024 Via Exponential View, thoughtful commentary on Pakistan’s silent energy transformation which offers a glimpse into the future of economic development, geopolitics and more: For Ksenia Alleyne, [...]
Ethiopia Signals Stock Market Launch In Mid?November
September 17th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, an article on Ethiopia’s plans to launch the country’s first stock market since the 1970s in mid November: Ethiopia is on track to launch the country’s first [...]
Uzbekistan To Start Processing Afghan Crude As Taliban Attempt Oil Revival
September 15th, 2024 Via S&P Global, a report on plans for Uzbekistan to start processing Afghan crude as Taliban attempt an oil revival: Fergana refinery to process volumes shipped across border Energy crisis [...]
Chinese Firms To Build Namibia’s Largest Solar Power Plant
September 15th, 2024 Via Reuters, a report on plans that will see Chinese firms build Namibia’s largest solar power plant: Namibia’s state-owned power utility NamPower on Monday said it had signed a contract [...]
Lobito Corridor: Illustrates Lack of American Imagination in Africa
September 15th, 2024 Via the Pan African Review, critical commentary on the Lobito Corridor: “This is a project that will showcase the American model of development.” These were the words of US ambassador to Angola, [...]
Toyota Land Cruiser, and The Rise and Fall of the 21st-Century African State
September 15th, 2024 For Pan African Review, Charles Onyango-Obbo traces the emergence and rise in the popularity of Toyota vehicles in Africa to the ideological shift in early independence days, the 1987 [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.