Y’ello Future: MTN’s Efforts To Woo Gen Z African Users
Via Quartz Africa, an article on how MTN, Africa’s biggest telcom, thinks its booming fintech and 4G services will woo Gen Z users: Last year in Nigeria, African telecoms group MTN doubled its [...]
China, India, and Sri Lanka’s Unprecedented Economic Crisis
Via The Diplomat, a report on Sri Lanka’s economic crisis: Sri Lanka is currently facing its worst economic crisis since the country gained independence in 1948. In spite of constant assurances [...]
Is Uganda’s Entebbe Airport At Risk of Seizure By China?
Via Quartz Africa, a look at the realities behind China’s debt financing of African infrastructure: Late last year, local and international media reported that Uganda’s Entebbe [...]
North Korea Breaks Ground on 10,000-home Residential Housing Drive
Via CNN, a report on a large scale housing project in North Korea: North Korea has started work on a sprawling 10,000-apartment residential project as the country embarks on a housing drive in its [...]
Pakistan: One of MENA’s Hottest TowerCo Markets
Via TowerXchange, an article on Pakistan’s cellular tower market: With an estimated 36,187 towers serving four MNOs with 189mn subscribers, the Pakistan tower market has plenty of room for [...]
Gas-Rich Azerbaijan a Russia-Ukraine War Winner
Via the Asia Times, an article on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline which carries gas from Azerbaijan to Europe but Baku can offer only limited supplies if Russia halts shipments: By any measure, [...]

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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.