For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town. Now AfDB just committed €6.5M to Saviu II—targeting Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, and Benin with €500K-€3M checks. It’s a bet that Francophone Africa’s 250 million people deserve the same institutional backing Anglophone hubs have monopolized. The question is whether €25M can actually rebalance a decade of geographic inequality.