Kilamba Kiaxi, Angola’s Giant City Of The Future
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on Kilamba Kiaxi, Angola’s giant city of the future: A flagship project of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos era, the ‘new [...]
India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a report on India’s Pavagada Ultra Mega Solar Park, a clean-power plant the size of Manhattan, could be a model for the world—or a cautionary tale: Every morning [...]
China Holds Upper Hand in Battle With U.S. For Africa’s Energy
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on how China holds upper hand in battle with U.S. for Africa’s energy: Power generation has become the latest battleground in the China-U.S. competition in Africa, [...]
How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan
Via Philadephia Magazine, an interesting story of how Philadelphia’s iconic sandwich became a hit in Pakistan’s 13M resident megalopolis of Lahore: Sometime in the fall of 2021, a man [...]
The New Face of Emerging Market Outsourcing: Africa
Via NextBillion, a look at the potential for Africa to become a major player in the global outsourcing industry: The global labor market has undergone two seismic shifts in the last two years: the [...]
19 Countries Express Interest in Joining BRICS
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, a report on growing interest amongst countries to join BRICS: What Happened: South Africa’s ambassador to BRICS (the informal bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China [...]

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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.