Zambia Plans New Railway to Spur Trade With Africa’s Great Lakes
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Zambia’s planned new railway: Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring [...]
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how China’s Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot, but rather a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption: Over the [...]
Top Organizations Unlock New Investments to Support the World’s Most Vulnerable
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the HRI Initiative which is focused on launching three new collaborative actions that will build and mature selected frontier markets, scale action at the [...]
DRC, South Africa, Botswana… Who Has the Greatest Potential in Critical Minerals?
Via The Africa Report, a look at who has the greatest potential in critical minerals in Africa: Rich in minerals and strategically located, in theory the African continent has what it takes to play a [...]
Yamaha Taps School Music To Score Growth in India, Southeast Asia
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Yamaha efforts to grow sales in emerging markets as Japan sales slide: For one New Delhi fifth grader shy of singing, a white, plastic recorder gifted by Japan’s [...]
Namibia: ‘Europe of Africa’ Due To Its Road System
Via The Brief, an article on how a delegation from Sierra Leone, on a study visit in Namibia, commended the country’s road network, even dubbing it the ‘Europe of Africa’ due to its road [...]

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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.