Rich Lamu Oil Discovery Fuels Kenya’s Economic Dreams
Via The East African, an article on how a rich Lamu oil find may fuel Kenya’s economic dreams: Kenya is just weeks away from announcing the discovery of new oil resources in the Lamu basin, [...]
Taliban Face Tough Diplomacy on Afghanistan’s Resources
Via The Frontier Post, commentary on challenges facing Afghanistan’s development of its natural resources: If Afghanistan had not been a victim of a decades long external and civil war, by now [...]
Belt & Road Reaching Far and Wide In Middle East
Via The Asia Times, an article on how China’s infrastructure scheme is now connected from Iran through Iraq to the eastern Mediterranean with more links to come: “All eyes on Ukraine,” writes a [...]
Ukraine War Has Killed China’s Eurasian Railway Dreams
Via Foreign Policy, an article on the impact of the Ukraine conflict on China’s ‘Iron Silk Road’ dreams: When he was welcomed to Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Feb. 6 for [...]
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 [...]

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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.