China: Secretly Fueling A Renewable Energy Boom in Latin America
Via Fortune, an article on China’s renewable energy-driven interest in Latin America: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for [...]
Young Zambians Want To Make Lusaka An African Animation Hub
Courtesy of Semafor, a look at efforts to make Zambia an African animation hub: When Netflix launches Supa Team 4, its first-ever original African animated series, it will be a significant milestone [...]
Honduras Explores Chinese Interest in Investing in $20 Billion Rail Line
Via US News, a report that Honduras is exploring Chinese interest in investing in a $20B rail project: The Honduran government on Friday told Chinese officials it is seeking investors to help fund [...]
Trading Chickens for a Fragile State
Via The National Interest, a look at South Africa’s poultry crisis and how trade practices promulgated in North America, Europe, and the UK have a stake in the outcome, beyond the chicken trade, [...]
China’s Transition From the Belt and Road to the Global Develop­ment Initiative
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at China’s transition from the Belt and Road to the Global Develop­ment Initiative: Even as China’s Belt and Road Initiative gears up to celebrate its 10th [...]
e&, Orange Weighing Bids for 45% Stake In Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom
Emirates Telecommunications Group (the e&) and France’s Orange are exploring opportunities to secure a 45% stake in Ethiopia’s state-owned telecom operator, reports Data Center Dynamics. The [...]

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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.