I like detecting my tempo, so I like it when they are toys.

In 2015, I visited the Andela headquarters at Epic Towers during my school holiday trip to Lagos, and that moment became a turning point in my life. Inspired by what I saw, I began learning to code, joined the Andela Learning Community, and participated in their events in Lagos.

A few months later, I returned to school in Ebonyi, where I realized there were no local tech communities where I could continue my learning journey. Learning started feeling boring and lonely. So, I decided to bring my friends together and start a community. After completing my compulsory SWISS internship at Genesys Tech Hub in Enugu, I returned to school and launched the Genesys Campus Club. What began as a small group of friends soon grew into a thriving tech community, eventually expanding to thousands of members and inspiring the creation of other communities like GDSC, Microsoft students community etc.

In 2021, while searching for a front-end engineering role, I stumbled upon a job posting for a community manager at a company I was eyeing. Out of curiosity, I applied—and to my surprise, I was hired. It was a web3 product community, and I worked there for several months. Since then, I’ve managed communities in various industries, including gaming, payments, software agency and web hosting.

Today, I lead the developer community at Tublian. This role aligns perfectly with my passion for both development and community building. Working as a developer community manager has shown me that this is where I truly thrive.

Structured Learning: When I started out, structured learning for community management was hard to find, especially for someone building a community in Africa. I had to rely on Google searches, a lot of trial and error, and countless hours watching YouTube videos to piece everything together.

Community Collective cohort was the first structured learning program and community for community managers that I joined, and I learned a great deal from it. I'm also a huge fan of podcasts—I listen to a lot of them!

I’m not sure if Substack counts, but if not, then it’s Discord and Slack.

Value. Yes, value is a strategy. Go to bed every day thinking about how to provide value to your members, and trust me—they will always engage.

Community is people and value. A group of people coming together to create value for each other.

Ask questions, read widely, and embrace being a generalist.