On TechPoint: Bridging the “Audacity Gap” in Lagos

While Nigeria boasts one of the world’s highest rates of female entrepreneurship, a staggering $42 billion financing gap and deep-seated social biases remain. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Davide Casciano explores the "audacity gap"—the pressure on women to perform Silicon Valley-style toughness while navigating a society that still measures their worth by domestic standards.