Collection:
West Africa
Patience is a Subtle Thief
I Am Still With You
Radical Inclusion
His Only Wife
Nightbloom
At Night All Blood is Black
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
The Teller of Secrets
God's Children are Little Broken Things
Ada's Realm
Goliath
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
My Life As a Chameleon
Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
The Joys of Motherhood
The Death of Vivek Oji
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
The Nigerwife
Africa is Not a Country
Rose and the Burma
Little Brother
The Girl With the Louding Voice
Beyond the Door of No Return
Wahala
A Fire in My Head
Of This Our Country
Women and Leadership
VAGABONDS!
Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2)
Clay's Ark (Patternist #3)
Lightseekers
No One Dies Yet
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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.
