China Frets About Its Dependence on Africa’s Resources As U.S. Muscles In
April 17th, 2025 Via South China Morning Post, a look at how China has heavily invested to secure raw materials from African nations, but US accusations over those deals pose new risks: A leading Chinese industry [...]
African Kingdom Lesotho Gives Starlink License in Overture to US
April 17th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a report on Lesotho’s recent decision to give Starlink a license to operate: Lesotho granted Elon Musk’s Starlink a 10-year license to operate its satellite network in the tiny [...]
Opinion: Save America’s Great Link To Africa
April 17th, 2025 An interesting OpEd reflection on how the African Growth and Opportunity Act benefits the U.S. as much as it does the continent: Over the past 25 years, the African Growth and Opportunity Act has [...]
Ethiopia-Somalia Rapprochement and its Potential Geopolitical Implications
April 13th, 2025 Via the Emirates Policy Center, commentary on Ethiopia-Somalia rapprochement: Key Takeaways The Somalia-Ethiopia rapprochement following the signing of the Ankara Declaration in late 2024 represents [...]
India Is Broadening Its Engagement Across the Middle East
April 12th, 2025 Via World Politics Review, commentary on India’s growing engagement with the Middle East: India’s expanding influence in the Middle East is among the most defining indicators of the [...]
The Shifting Geopolitics of AI
April 11th, 2025 Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how companies and countries are scrambling to control the supply chains for chips, data centers, and subsea cables: The artificial intelligence revolution is deeply [...]

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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.