TEKEDIA - Afropolitan, a community-as-a-service startup that wants to build a digital nation for Africans in Metaverse, announced that it has raised $2.1M to build an Afro Digital Nation. Afropolitan was founded by Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie to build a network comprising the best that Africa and the diaspora offer across art, finance, tech, health, sports, and media. Afropolitan wants to be the first-ever internet country in the future. Afropolitan's objective is to solve the Crisis of Legitimacy experienced by Africans worldwide by building a new source of Legitimacy embodied in Digital Nation.