Your East African community, online.

Discover Habesha events near you, find Ethiopian and Eritrean businesses around the corner, and connect with people who share your roots. From Addis Ababa to Toronto to Washington DC.

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What's inside

Three ways to find your people.

Nilove brings the East African diaspora together — events to attend, places to discover, and meaningful connections to make.

Events near you.

Habesha New Year parties, Eritrean Independence celebrations, community fundraisers, religious gatherings. Curated for the diaspora, not buried in a generic event feed.

Places that get your culture.

Ethiopian restaurants, Eritrean groceries, Somali cafes, Orthodox churches, mosques. With hours, photos, and directions for the spots that matter to our people.

People who share your roots.

Cultural matchmaking with heritage, faith, language, and family expectations as the starting point, not filters added on. Marriage-minded and intentional.

Why Nilove

For our people. By our people.

For Habesha. For Somali. For Sudanese. For Kenyan. For everyone in between.

Generic apps don't understand the way our families ask where are you from before they ask anything else, or the way our weekends revolve around community. Nilove brings together the events, places, and people of the East African diaspora — in one app built for us, by us.

Conversation starters

Prompts that go somewhere.

Every profile answers one. It’s the easiest way to know whether the next message is worth sending.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia

The dish my grandmother makes that I will never recreate is…

Her doro wat. I have tried four times. It is never close.

🇪🇷 Eritrea

The smell that takes me straight back to Asmara is…

Kicha firfir on a Saturday morning. Nothing else hits the same.

🇸🇴 Somalia

My idea of a perfect afternoon is…

Bariis iskukaris, three cousins, and an argument about whose hooyo cooks it best.

🇸🇩 Sudan

The first thing I’d serve someone I want to impress is…

Karkade, cold, in my mother’s good glasses. The conversation can start there.

🇰🇪 Kenya

The most Nairobi thing about me is…

I will judge a place by how good its chai is. Quietly. But I’m judging.

Trust & safety

A community, looked after.

Curated, not noisy.

Events and places are reviewed by our team. Daily caps on likes and discovery push you to engage with intention, not endless scrolling.

Block, unmatch, report.

All in two taps from any conversation. Reports go straight to our team.

Real people.

Phone-verified accounts, Cloudflare bot protection, and active moderation. Reports reach a real person, not a queue.