Collection:
Africa
A Ghost in Shining Armour
Patience is a Subtle Thief
I Am the Mau and other stories
I Am Still With You
Radical Inclusion
Unearthed
His Only Wife
Nightbloom
Years of Fire and Ash
At Night All Blood is Black
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Watch Us Dance
A Trail of Crab Tracks
America Made Me A Black Man
Self Defense
A Joyful Life
The Teller of Secrets
The Engagement
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw
God's Children are Little Broken Things
Ada's Realm
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Goliath
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
My Life As a Chameleon
Scary Smart
Thirsty Animals
Africa Risen
Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
The Joys of Motherhood
How to Write About Africa
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Mine Boy
The Death of Vivek Oji
Glory
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
As Rich as the King
Hangman
A History of Burning
Call and Response
Sex and Lies
Things They Lost
The Nigerwife
Africa is Not a Country
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.