We need to start telling better stories but the stories should not evolve from artificially branding a community…it starts from the entrepreneurs in the community thinking the right way and building better companies…
I’m personally betting against Yaba becoming the tech hub of Nigeria. It’s way to crowded and doesn’t offer any significant advantages. Any serious business owner ( tech or non-tech) with big expansion plans will not limit themselves to Yaba but will be looking at the Lekki/Ajah axis.
Silicon Valley makes sense because universities in that specific are a major source of tech innovation in the U.S. People are working on cutting edge technologies that scale to become companies and so the talent pool is significant. People move to Silicon Valley because you can’t take a bus from there to Texas everyday for work.