Europe and Africa Forging a New Relationship
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at efforts to forge a new relationship between Europe and Africa: Late January 2024, prominent African leaders and corporate business executives attended the summit [...]
African Production of Natural Gas: A Vexing Climate Challenge
Via The Washington Post, a look at African production of natural gas and how it poses a vexing climate challenge: As a young geologist working for Senegal’s state-owned petroleum company in the [...]
Can Lagos Be Harnessed to the Rest of Nigeria?
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Nigeria’s efforts to create a new industrial hub in Lekki: Successful economies connect their growth poles to their hinterlands. In Nigeria, the Lagos [...]
China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) In Southeast Asia: Progress And Challenges
Via Eurasia Review, a look at China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) in Southeast Asia: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Proposed by [...]
Putting 10,000 EVs on African Roads, the Hard Way
Courtesy of Rest of World, an article on Benin-based Spiro’s efforts to exchange old bikes for electric models across four African countries: In less than two years, Cotonou-headquartered EV [...]
Chinese Firms To Invest $7B in DRC Mining Infrastructure
Via Reuters, a report on plans by Chinese companies to invest up to $7 billion in Democratic Republic of Congo mining infrastructure: Chinese construction companies will invest up to $7 billion 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.