China’s Digital Diplomacy: Beaming Into Africa With Satellite TV
Courtesy of The Wire China, an interesting look at StarTimes, a Chinese-owned satellite TV company, which has 25M subscribers and is now Africa’s second-largest satellite TV service after South [...]
Africa’s Critical Minerals Could Power America’s Green Energy Transition
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on how President Biden’s IRA is shutting African countries out of supply chains for critical minerals when including them would be a strategic and [...]
Grupo Bimbo: Cooking With Grease After Takis Fuego Launch
Via Latinometrics, a look at Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo – a global baked goods multinational that has seen accelerated growth with its launch of an addictively delicious snack called Takis [...]
Stifled at Home, Tunisian Tech Finds Success in the West
Via Rest of World, a report on Tunisian tech entrepreneurs who – buoyed by recent acquisitions of InstaDeep and Expensya – are looking outside the country for clients: Tunisian tech [...]
Shaky Foundations for the BRICS Expansion Push
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report that – while China and Russia are keen to expand BRICS into a coalition to counter the U.S. – Brazil and India are reluctant: The 15th summit of the [...]
China’s Chokehold On Tesla
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report that Tesla relies on China for 40% of battery supply chain, despite efforts to boost the resiliency of its lithium supplies: Nearly 40% of the suppliers for [...]

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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.