Nigerian entrepreneur Temitope Segun Jongbo has launched Globiqo, a community and event discovery platform designed to help Africans living abroad discover events, meet people and build meaningful connections in their cities.
The platform emerged from Temitope’s personal experience living in the United Kingdom, where he encountered the challenge of finding African-focused events and communities despite the growing number of Africans living, studying and working abroad.
According to the founder, information about African events is often fragmented across Instagram pages, websites, private online groups and word-of-mouth networks, making it difficult for newcomers and existing residents to discover relevant activities.
Temitope said the challenge became the inspiration for Globiqo in December, when he found himself repeatedly searching across different platforms to find events and opportunities to connect with people.
Rather than continuing to search across multiple channels, he began exploring the possibility of creating a single platform where Africans abroad could discover events and connect with communities more easily.
That idea eventually evolved into Globiqo.
Connecting Africans Beyond Borders
Globiqo is being developed around the idea that Africans living outside the continent need more accessible ways to maintain cultural connections while building new social and professional networks.
For international students arriving in unfamiliar countries, young professionals relocating for work, and entrepreneurs establishing themselves in new markets, finding a community can be an important part of settling into a new environment.
According to Temitope, African cultural experiences can provide a natural starting point for those connections.
These may include Nigerian cultural celebrations, African music nights, professional networking events, food festivals, community gatherings and other activities organised around shared cultural interests.
The challenge, he said, is often not the absence of these events but knowing where to find them.
From Attending Events to Creating Communities
A key component of Globiqo’s concept is allowing Africans abroad to create events as well as discover them.
The platform is designed to enable individuals and community organisers to create gatherings that bring people together around shared interests, cultures and experiences.
A Nigerian student could organise a social gathering, an African entrepreneur could host a networking event, while a community organiser could create a cultural celebration or a food entrepreneur could organise an African culinary experience.
Temitope believes that giving people the tools to create their own experiences is essential to building sustainable communities.
According to him, communities are ultimately created by people who take the initiative to bring others together, rather than by technology alone.
Using Culture to Build New Connections
For many Africans living abroad, cultural events offer more than entertainment.
They can provide a connection to familiar traditions, food, music, language, and experiences while helping people establish relationships in their new environments.
Globiqo is being positioned around this intersection between cultural identity and community discovery.
The platform’s broader vision is based on the belief that a single event can create connections that extend well beyond the event itself.
An event can lead to a friendship, a friendship can develop into a professional relationship, and a professional connection can eventually create new opportunities.
Temi sees this chain of possibilities as part of the value that community-driven event discovery can create for Africans abroad.
Addressing Fragmented Event Discovery
Globiqo aims to reduce the reliance on social media algorithms and word-of-mouth as the primary ways people discover events.
Instead, the platform seeks to bring relevant experiences into a more accessible and discoverable environment.
For users, this could reduce the amount of time spent searching across different websites and social media accounts.
For event organisers, the platform could provide another channel for reaching people who are actively looking for social, cultural and professional experiences.
The central idea, according to the company, is simple: make it easier for people who want to connect to find one another.
A Response to a Growing African Diaspora
The development of Globiqo comes against the backdrop of a growing African diaspora, with Africans increasingly studying, working, establishing businesses and raising families across Europe, North America and other parts of the world.
Temitope believes this expanding population represents more than a group of people living outside Africa.
It is also a network of students, professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives, families and community organisers creating new social and economic ecosystems in different countries.
As these communities expand, they are increasingly organising their own events, building businesses and creating platforms designed around their shared experiences.
Globiqo aims to become part of that emerging ecosystem by providing the digital infrastructure for discovering and creating community experiences.
Building a Digital Home for Connection
For Temitope, the ambition extends beyond creating another event-listing platform.
The broader vision is to give Africans arriving in a new city a simple way to answer two questions: What is happening around me? And where can I find my people?
What began with a Nigerian entrepreneur searching through Instagram and other platforms for events has evolved into an effort to create a more connected digital environment for Africans abroad.
As Globiqo develops, its founders are betting that technology can do more than facilitate communication—it can help people discover shared experiences, build relationships, and find a sense of community wherever they are in the world.
