YouScribe Takes On Amazon In Africa
May 9th, 2022 An interesting look at how YouScribe – a digital reading platform with more than one million French-language books, newspapers and audiobooks – has amassed hundreds of thousands of [...]
Dangote’s Timely Fertilizer Plant Pays off As Prices Soar
May 6th, 2022 Via African Business, an article on Dangote’s new Nigerian fertilizer plant: What better time to launch a fertiliser plant than when global prices are at their record highs? That’s exactly [...]
Russia Looks To Cash In On Afghanistan Opportunities
May 6th, 2022 Via Russia Briefing, commentary on Russia’s interest in Afghanistan: Afghanistan is a US$1 trillion commodities and transit bank for Russian and Chinese supply chain needs Eight months after US [...]
China Completes Cabinda Port Project
May 6th, 2022 Via Clingendael, a report on a large-scale Chinese investment in Angola: China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) completed the construction of a marine passenger terminal in Cabinda [...]
Pakistan’s Economy Is On The Brink
May 4th, 2022 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Pakistan’s increasingly fragile economy: Pakistan is in political and economic chaos. Its most populous province, Punjab, was without a government [...]
Emerging Markets Are the Next Comeback Nations
May 4th, 2022 Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on the potential for emerging markets in the near term: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I argued in an article for Foreign Affairs that in the 2010s, the United [...]

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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.