A new Silicon Valley in Africa?
Lagos and its ICT Sector

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
6:00-7:30 pm*

Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San José State University

King Library Incubator Space (Lower Level)

Ethnobreakfast and SJSU’s Anthropology department will host Visiting Scholar, Davide Casciano. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Award recipient with the project LAGOSTECH, Dr. Casciano has decades of anthropological research experience in Nigeria and South Africa.  His ethnographic inquiry incorporates ethnographic futures research with entrepreneurs in the emerging ICT sector in Lagos.  In this discussion, he will share some of his initial insights with his colleagues from San Jose Staté University and Ethnobreakfast. 

*Let’s continue the conversation afterwards at the San José Downtown Food Hall, 82 E. Santa Clara