Trust
We treat your money and your order as if they were our own. Every recommendation we make, we can stand behind.
About us
Built by someone who has stood on both sides of the bridge
Errandnese exists because our founder lived the problem it solves: being from Africa, doing business in China, and knowing how much easier it becomes when someone trustworthy is on the ground.
- Originally from South Sudan
- Around 10 years living and working in China
- Fluent Mandarin Chinese
- Founded Errandnese in Guangzhou, 2020
- At home in both Chinese and African business culture
The story
Why Makur Mangar started Errandnese
The beginning
From South Sudan to Guangzhou
Makur Mangar grew up in South Sudan and came to China as a young man, settling in Guangzhou — the trading heart of southern China. Like many before him, he arrived with ambition and without the language.
The decade
Learning China from the inside
Over roughly ten years he did what few buyers ever get the chance to do: he learned Mandarin to fluency, studied how Chinese factories, markets and negotiations really work, and built relationships across the supplier community — not as a visitor, but as a resident.
The pattern
Watching the same story repeat
Again and again, businesspeople from home would arrive in Guangzhou — or send money to suppliers they had never met — and run into the same walls: language barriers, unverifiable companies, quality surprises, cargo stuck in paperwork. The problem was never ambition. It was the absence of someone trustworthy on the ground.
2020
Errandnese is founded
In 2020, Makur founded Errandnese in Guangzhou to be exactly that: a sourcing and procurement partner that stands on the African buyer's side of the table — speaking fluent Chinese to factories, and speaking plainly and honestly to clients.
Our mission
“To make sourcing from China safer, clearer and more accessible for African businesses.”
Safer, because suppliers are verified and goods are inspected. Clearer, because you always know what is happening with your order and why. More accessible, because you should not need a decade in China to buy from it well.
What we stand for
Five values, applied to every order
These are not poster words. Each one describes how we behave when it costs us something to do so.
Transparency
Real prices, real supplier names, real timelines. You see what we see, including the problems.
Local Knowledge
A decade in China, fluent Chinese, and relationships in the markets and factories where your products are made.
Accountability
One partner responsible from first enquiry to final delivery. When something goes wrong, we fix it — we don't disappear.
Long-term Relationships
We grow when your business grows. Our aim is your second, fifth and fiftieth order, not a one-time commission.
The long view
Where Errandnese is going
Trade between China and Africa keeps growing, and African businesses deserve infrastructure built for them — not adapted as an afterthought.
Our vision is for Errandnese to be the name African entrepreneurs pass to each other when someone asks, “who do you trust in China?” — a bridge that starts in Guangzhou and reaches further across the continent as our clients grow. We grow one delivered, inspected, honest order at a time.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you need to source. We'll handle China.
Send your product details, quantity and destination. We will come back with a clear, practical next step — no obligation, no jargon.