Lagos: Making The Case For Nigeria
January 18th, 2024 Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on how the former capital city of Nigeria, under the mentorship of then Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, fought back against its financial exclusion to [...]
How the UAE is Making a Splash in Indonesia’s Clean Energy Sector
January 18th, 2024 Via The Diplomat, a look at how Masdar’s willingness to work within the constraints of the country’s political economy offers important lessons for the U.S.-backed Just Energy Transition [...]
Africa’s Top Smartphone Seller Transsion Is The World’s Fastest Growing Phone Maker
January 18th, 2024 Via Semafor, a report on the world’s fastest growing phone maker: Transsion, the top smartphone seller in Africa, posted the highest annual growth in smartphone shipments in 2023 of the top [...]
Dubai Investments Enters Angola with Mixed-Use Development
January 18th, 2024 Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on Dubai Investments interest in Angola: UAE-based multi-asset investment group, Dubai Investments, has announced plans to develop an integrated residential, [...]
The Politics of Green Hydrogen Cooperation in North Africa
January 17th, 2024 Via EnergyCentral, a report on the politics of North Africa’s green hydrogen industry in Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania: Europe’s growing interest in securing green hydrogen from North [...]
South Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Renewable Energy Leader
January 17th, 2024 Via Semafor, an interesting look at sub-Saharan Africa’s renewable energy generation prospects, illuminating South Africa’s commanding lead: South Africa will produce nearly half of [...]

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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.