# Afropolitan **Afropolitan** is a project to build a "digital nation" for Africans and the African diaspora, modeled openly on [[Balaji Srinivasan]]'s [[Network State]]. Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie founded it in 2016 as an events and travel company for the diaspora. In 2022 they recast it as a network state in the making and raised $2.1 million. Its plan runs in stages: an online network, an app, a "minimum viable state," and finally land, in the form of Afropolitan districts in cities around the world. Srinivasan and [[Pronomos Capital]] have both been reported as backers. ## Why it's on the map Afropolitan shows the network-state idea traveling outside the Silicon Valley right. Its founders present exit as an answer to bad governance in African states, not as a tax strategy for the rich. Whether it gets past the online stage is the open question. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Itana]] — a related project in Nigeria - [[Network State Experiments Roster]]