Lagos: Soon To Be Africa’s 13th Biggest Economy – Equivalent To Ghana
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on Lagos’ economic power: Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, could soon have a US$45 billion economy – equivalent to that of Ghana, according to a [...]
Commerce In Kabul
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on doing business in Afghanistan: Hassina Syed, founder and chief executive of Afghanistan’s Syed Group, seems remarkably calm for a mother [...]
Oilmen Ready For Risky Push Into Somalia
Via Energy Daily, a look at planned oil development in Somalia: Foreign companies are getting ready to undertake the risky business of exploring for oil in war-torn Somalia, a quest that could [...]
A Tired Tiger? Vietnam’s Star Is Dimming
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a sobering look at Vietnam: Like other would-be tiger economies, Vietnam faces a trifecta of new threats: a crisis-paralyzed Europe, a faltering America, and a newly [...]
Paraguay Expected To Have Largest Economic Growth In Region
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting look at Paraguay: Earlier this week, in an interview for ‘America Economia’ JP Morgan Economist Franco Uccelli, underlined the expected economic growth of [...]
Somalia: Bringing International Bandwidth To Mogadishu
Via Balancing Act, an interesting look at Somalia’s telecom sector: It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the ground after years of civil [...]

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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.