At the ongoing tenth edition of #StartupSouth, in Port Harcourt, conversations about innovation, policy, and infrastructure converged on one central theme: connectivity as destiny. The disparity is rooted in hard infrastructure: submarine cables. “Equinix, through the 2Africa project, has been able to lay the first submarine cable that landed in the South-South,” Mamah announced. A developer in Port Harcourt can work on the same team as someone in Silicon Valley. “Is there still a need to relocate to Lagos?” Mamah asked.