Tanzania: Is it Too Late For U.S. To Catch Up With China?
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at U.S. efforts to move closer to Tanzania: As geopolitical competition between the US and China on the continent intensifies, one country to watch is Tanzania, [...]
Mexico and Peru: Soft Fruit Superpowers
Via the World Economic Forum, a look at how Peru and Mexico boosted berry production hundreds of times over in just 10 years: Carlos Gereda didn’t know what he was starting when he brought some [...]
Africa’s Lucrative Spare Parts Opportunity
Courtesy of AfriDigest, a look at Africa’s lucrative spare parts opportunity, brought about by rising vehicle ownership, poor road quality, and a variety of other catalysts: Mobility is essential [...]
China Unveils ‘Grandiose Plan’ for Central Asia
Via the Jamestown Foundation, a look at China’s forthcoming ‘Grandiose Plan’ for Central Asia: In the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation and China [...]
Iran Discovers World’s Second Largest Lithium Reserve
Via The Cradle, commentary on a recent discovery of lithium in Iran: The Islamic Republic of Iran discovered one of the world’s largest lithium reserves, according to a report published by Press TV [...]
Africa’s Diesel Generation Boom
Via Energy Monitor, an interesting look at the fact that at least 17 African countries have so many diesel generators that their collective off-grid capacity is greater than that of the power grid [...]

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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.