Hafrik is the community, marketplace and services app for Africans living, studying and trading in China. One place for your city, your trade and your campus, instead of forty scattered group chats.
The things you need most when you arrive are a trustworthy supplier, a room, a shipping agent, the right way to pay, and someone who has done it before. Today they sit scattered across WeChat and WhatsApp groups, hearsay and links that stopped working years ago.
Hafrik gathers all of it into one app, kept up by the people who actually live it. It isn’t another social network. It’s a place to ask, answer, buy, sell and belong.
The problem isn’t unique to China. Wherever a diaspora forms, the same gaps appear. China is where we prove it works, and where we start.
One app. One community.Group chats are great for gist and terrible for finding what you need when you need it. Answers get buried, scams travel fast, and every newcomer asks the same questions from scratch.
Spaces are focused communities. Join the ones that matter to you and Hafrik organises everything else around them.
What’s happening where you actually live: events, food, housing and the people around you.
Sourcing, shipping, suppliers and markets, with traders who do it every week.
Your university and fellow students, from admission to graduation.
Pick your city, your trade and your school. Your feed fills with posts, photos, reels and stories from people in the same situation.
Post a question and hear from people who have been there. Guides and tips explain how things really work here.
Buy and sell in the Marketplace, find African businesses near you, pay suppliers, see this week’s events and get help when something goes wrong.
Hafrik started as a community app. Around it we’ve built the services that community kept asking for, all with one Hafrik account.
The community, marketplace and services app for Africans in China, on iPhone and Android.
Get the appA life-simulation game about starting out in China. Create a newcomer, pick your dream and background, then work, wander, make friends and build a life that feels like yours.
ChinaLife is fictional. In-game yuan has no real-world value.
Play ChinaLifeChange Nigerian Naira or Ghanaian Cedi into RMB without hunting for a trusted agent in a group chat.
Our online mall. Shop fashion, electronics, home and kitchen goods sourced in China, and get them delivered to Lagos, Accra and Nairobi.
Built by and for the people who live it. Members answer each other, welcome newcomers and keep the knowledge alive.
In this market trust is the currency. Reviews, activity and visible track records help you know who you’re dealing with.
Organised by city. What you see is relevant to where you actually are, from events to businesses to housing.
Real answers and tools that get things done: paying, sourcing, shipping, settling in. Less talk, more help.
Land, settle in and find your feet faster.
Source smarter and ship with fewer surprises.
Reach the people already looking for you.
Tell the real story of life in China.
Hafrik is designed so reputation is visible and help is never far away.
One place for Africans in China to find each other, instead of forty WeChat groups.
A community app, a marketplace, a payments layer and a media arm, now joined by ChinaLife, RMB exchange and Hafrik Shop.
Community first, with sourcing, payments, guides and shopping built on top. Live on iPhone and Android.
Free to download, on iPhone and Android.
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