China’s BRI and Neoglobalization In East Africa
Via an scholarly examination of China’s BRI strategy in East Africa as a particular variegation of transnational state capitalism and neoglobalization: ABSTRACT The most significant case of [...]
South Sudan Hopes Planned Port in Djibouti Will Increase Market Access, Profits
Via AllAfrica, a report on South Sudan’s hopes that a planned port in Djibouti will increase market access and profits: Officials in South Sudan confirmed this month they have bought land on [...]
India: Building On Its Historic Links With Central Asia
Via Eurasia Review, a report on India’s efforts to build out its historic links with Central Asia: Present-day Indian rulers, who are keen on establishing India’s presence in Central Asia, [...]
Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project Takes Off
Via AfricaNews.com, an article on a new Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project: A memorandum of understanding on a gas pipeline project linking Nigeria to Morocco, which will also supply West Africa [...]
Exporting Saharan Sun To The UK
Via WIRED, an article on an ambitious cable project which aims to use Moroccan solar power to provide thousands of UK homes with renewable energy by 2030: By the time Scotland’s Hunterston B [...]
Inflation, Unrest Challenge Bangladesh’s ‘Miracle Economy’
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how – although Bangladesh’s situation is nowhere nearly as severe as Sri Lanka’s – it faces similar troubles: excessive spending, corruption [...]

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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.