# Itana **Itana**, formerly Talent City, is a Nigerian company building what it calls Africa's first digital free zone: an online jurisdiction where technology firms can register and operate under the tax and regulatory breaks of the Lekki Free Zone outside Lagos. It also plans a physical campus there, in the Alaro City development. Its backers include co-founder Iyinoluwa Aboyeji's Future Africa fund and [[Pronomos Capital]], the [[Peter Thiel]]-backed charter-city fund, which joined a $2 million pre-seed round in 2023. The [[Charter Cities Institute]] is a partner. In 2024 Itana signed an agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation to develop the zone. ## Why it's on the map Itana is the African entry in the charter-city portfolio, and it shows how the working versions of these projects operate: inside a free zone that a government already created, not outside the state. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Pronomos Capital]] - [[Charter City]] - [[Network State Experiments Roster]]