Bookshops
A Darker Shade
42 Chadsworth Road
Hackney
E5 OLP
Tel: 07949211122
Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd
PO Box 4433418
London
SE11 4XZ
Tel: 0207 733 8803
www.adonisandabbey.com
African Books Collective
The Jam Factory
27 Park Street
Oxford
OX1, 1HU
Tel: 01865 726686
For books about African culture published by Africa’s leading publishers.
African Books Ltd
3 Galena Road
W6 0LT
Tel: 0207 746 3646
African Connection
6 Tunstall Road
Brixton
SW9 8BN
Tel: 0207 501 9445
African Oneline Shop
2 Surrenden
Brighton
BN1, 6PP
Tel: 0207 681 3968
www.over2u.co.uk
African Reflections
26 Lee High Road
Lewisham
SE13 5PT
Afribulia
16 Bury Place
Holborn
WC1
Tel: 0207 404 7137
Lots of African gifts, from art and jewellery.
Airlift Book Company
Tel: 0208 804 0400
For African American publications.
All Eyes on Egypt
25 Brixton Station Road
Brixton
SW2
Tel: 0207 978 8321
Email:supremenine@aol.com
Arthur Probsthain Oriental and African Bookseller
Books on African, Asian and Middle Eastern languages, art, architecture, archaeology, literature and religion.
Tottenham Court Road
WC1
Tel: 0207 636 1096
Opposite the British Museum41 Great Russell Street.
Ayebia
Publishers and literary agents for African and Caribbean writing. The site offers a news archive as well as information on books and reviews of new works.
Website: www.ayebia.co.uk
Back to Africa Father and Son Barbers
464 New Cross, London
Tel: 0208 694 0166
Bajaican Blessings
Tel: 0208 864 2579/ 07909515419
Bantu World
www.bantu,vshore.ca
Online store selling CD/DVD focused on African/Caribbean history
BIS Publications
PO BOX 14918
N17 8WJ
Tel: 0845 226 4066
Website: www.bispublications.com
Email: info@bispublications.com
Black Family Library
23 Quainton Street
Neasden
London
NW10 0BG
Tel: 0956 309 140
Black Writers Bookshop
London
Tel: 0208 540 7386
Bogle-L’Ouverture Press
P.O.Box 2186
London
W13 9QZ
Tel: 0208 579 4920
Email:www.newbeacon-books.com
Books and Images
122 – 126 Kilburn High Street, Kilburn, NW6
Tel: 07956 695 808
Bookscan
Unit 9 Angela Davis Industrial Estate
Somerlyton Road
Brixton
SW9 8TZ
Tel: 0207 274 6499
Cards of Colour
32 Model Market
186 Lewisham High Street
SE13
Tel: 0208 297 1511
Cassell Plc
Freepost
SW1 4312
London
WC2N 5BR
Centerprise Bookshop
136 Kingsland High Street
Dalston
E8 2NS
Tel: 0207 245 9632
Specialises in Black writing, contemporary fiction and books for children. Also sells cards, gift wraps and book tokens.
Concious Equation Bookshop
151 Dudley Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B18 7QY
Tel: 0800 781 0847
D’ JED
The New Shepherds Bush Market
UNIT L32- L34
Uxbridge Road
London W2 8LF
Tel: 0208 743 1985 /07836 355 416 / 07946 743 108
Eastside Books
178 Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel
E1, 9LU
Tel: 0207 297 0216
Website: www.eastsidebooks.co.uk
Eygpt on my Mind
39 High Street
Thornton Heath
CR7, 7JF
Tel: 0208 239 0939
Fasuuku
81 Falkirk Lane
Maida Vale
W1 1QX
Tel: 0207 604 3621
Email: info@fasuuku.co.uk
Website: www.fasuuku.co.uk
Francis Lincoln Publishers
Tel: 0207 284 4009
Grant and Cutler (books and films)
There are also selected African DVDs and videos.
55-57 Great Marlborough Street
W1
Tel: 020 7734 2012
Oxford Circus tube.
Grounding
Unit 30, 231 High Road
Tottenham N15
Tel: 0208 800 2727
Hansib Publications Limted
3rd Floor Tower House
141 –149 Fonthill Road
N4 3HF
Tel: 0207 281 1191
Harriet Tubman Bookshop
27 Grove Lane
Handsworth
Birmingham
Tel:0121 554 8479
Headstart Books and Crafts
25 West Green Road
N15, 5BX
Tel: 0208 802 2838
Email: wboaye@yahoo.co.uk
Holy Tabernacle of Moors
339 Barking Barking Road
East Ham
London
E6
Tel: 0208 472 2885
Holy Tabernacle Stores
42 Balls Pond Road
Dalston
N1 4AP
Tel: 0208 254 6442
House of Joy/Christian Music
55 Lee High Road
Lewisham
London
SE13 5NS
Tel: 0208 318 1213
Hylton’s Estates
Unit 30 Rye Lane Market
Peckham
SE15 5ER
Tel: 07946546544
Website: www.hyltonventures.co.uk
Specialise in afro-caribbean books on history, empowerment, education videos, dvd’s etc
Inspired
28 Tooting High Street
London
SW17 0RG
Tel: 0208 225 9918
IQRA Centre
50 Ilford Lane
Ilford
London
IG2 2JY
Tel: 0208 514 7504
Kenya Books
31 Samdout Avenue
Brighton
BN1, 6EH
Tel: 01273556629
Email: info@kenyabooks.com
Kizala
9a George Street
Croydon
Surrey
CR0 1LA
Tel: 0208 688 2601
Email: www.kizala.co.uk
Knowledge Station
www.thebookwiz.com/99885
Tel: 07939692522
Kuumba
23 Glenworth Road
Radford
Nottingham
NG7 5QN
Tel: 01115 847 7232 / 079522369112
Kwazen Books
Unit 20 Groveglade Shopping Hall
9-13 The Broadway
West Ealing
W13 9DA
Tel: 07946 835 686
Email: kwazenbooks@ginikanwa.com
Letterbox Library
71-73 Allen Road
Stoke Newington
N11 8R1
Tel: 0207 503 4801
Letterbox Library
Unit 2D
Leroy House
436 Essex Road
N1 3QP
Tel: 0207 226 1622
Liberation Corner
95 Wilesden High Road
Tel: 0207 639 3036
Linx
102 Brixton Hill
London
SW2 1AH
Tel: 0208 678 7555
Lynx
Unit 35 Eurolink Business Centre
49 Efra Road
London
SW2 1EX
Tel: 0207 326 4888
Maarifa Books
6 Bradbury Street
Dalston
Tel: 0207 503 0300
Website: www.maarifabooks.com
Mama Afrika Kulcha Shap
282 High Road
Leyton
E10, 5PW
Tel: 0208 539 2154
Muatta Books
58 Clarence Road
Clapton, E5, 8HB
Tel: 07956 134 370
Email:muattabooks@yahoo.co.uk
Multicultural Books LTD
PO Box 107
Greenford
Middlesex
UB6 9YX
Tel: 0208 613 1978
Website: www.multiculturalbooks.co.uk
New Beacon Books
76 Stroud Green Road
London
N4 3EN
Tel: 0207 272 4889
www.newbeacon-books.com
New Covenant Bookshop
Unit 214 Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre
London
SE1 6TE
Tel: 0207 277 0272
Nubian Art Centre
27 Catford Broadway
Catford
SE6, 4SN
Tel: 0208 690 1009
Black books, greeting cards, scented candles, incense, fragrance oils and posters.
Nubian Minds
156a High Street
Walthamstow
London
E17 7JS
Tel: 0208 509 7389
Website: www.nubianminds.co.uk
One world books (Internet shop)
Address: 8 Ricketts Street
SW6 1RU
Tel: 0207 381 4996
Website: www.one-world-books.demon.co.uk
Passionet.net (Internet store)
537 Norwood Road
Chestnut Road
West Norwood
SE27, 9DL
Tel: 0845 330 9498
Paul Bogle Resource Centre
11 Shockwell Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 9LX
Tel: 01902 731 123
Paublo Books Ltd
Pentax House
South Hill Avenue
Northolt Road
South Harrow
London
HA2 0DU
Tel: 0208 422 7954
Pepukayi Distribution Services
58 Carew Road
Tottenham
N17 9BA
Tel:0208 801 0205
Peepaltree press Publishers
17 Kings Avenue
Leeds
LS6, 1QS
Tel: 01132451703
Website: www.peepaltreepress.com
Phinza
East Street Market
Walworth
SE17
Tel: 07765651747
E-mail: phinza@aol.com
Playfare Toys LTD
30 High Street
Harlesden
NW10, 4LX
Tel: 0208 965 4477
Email: store@playfare.com
Power of B.L.A.C.K.
18 Gainsborough Avenue
Manor Park
London
E12 6JL
Tel: 0956 28524
Promiseland Book Ltd
Suite 290 78 Marylebone High Street
London
W1M 4AP
Tel: 0956 312 026
Respect 4 Life
1st Floor Crossbow House
40 Liverpool Road
Slough Berkshire
SL1 4X7
Tel: 01753 774591
Rainbow Books
Stockwell/Brixton
Tel: 0207 627 2846
Website: www.rainbowbooksonline.co.uk
Sable Litmag
An international publication for writers ‘of colour’.
Website: www.sablelitmag.org
Sankofa
132 Claremont Road
Moss Side
Manchester
M14 4RT
Tel: 0161 342 0925
Scholar Christian Bookshop
Bridge Park Brentfield
Harrow Road
London
NW10 0RG
Tel: 0208 965 6453
Seed of Life Christian Books
22 Newington Causeway
London
SE1 6DR
Tel: 0207 407 3000
Soma Books
38 Kennington Lane
SE11 4LS
Tel: 0207 785 2101
Imports African, Caribbean, and Asian books.
Soul of Black Folk
407 Coldhabour Lane
Brixton
London
SW9
Tel: 0207 738 4141
Tamarind Books Ltd
PO Box 52
Northwood
Middlesex
HA6 1UN
Tel: 0208 866 8808
Website: www.tamarindbooks.com
Email:tamarindLTD@aol.com
Terre D’Ivore
21 Effie Road, SW6
Tel: 0207 386 0460
Sell contemporary African furniture, and accessories i.e sculptured leather chairs, rugs, etc.
The African Centre
38 King Street
Covent Gardens
WC2C, 8JT
Tel: 0207 740 6640
The building also houses the Centre for African languages, and the African Education Trust.
Timbuktu Books
278 Coldhabour Lane
Brixton
London
SW9
Tel: 0207 737 2770
Tribal Gathering London
1 Westbourne Grove Mews
Notting Hill Gate
W11
Tel: 0207 221 6650
Stocks masks, sculptures, furniture from various African countries.
Venture Books
1545 London Road
Norbury
London
SW16
Tel: 0208 679 3244
Wasafiri
The 23-year-old literary magazine provides features writing from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and Black Britain.
Tel: 020 7556 6110
Website: www.wasafiri.org
West Indian Cultural Centre
Carmoor Road
Manchester
Tel: 0161 257 2092
Yemanja-A Window to Afrika
Books, jewellery, African crafts, sculptures and accessories are sold here.
Phone for details of black history classes.
7 Stroud Green Road
Finsbury Park
N4, 2DQ
Tel: 0207 281 8668
Email: www.yemanjaonline.com
Yemanja-A Window to Afrika
446 Birchfield Road
Perry Bar
Birmingham
B20 3JQ
Tel: 0121 344 3744
Zagreb Books
45 Burton Street
London
WC1
Tel: 0207 388 1840
Zawadi Enterprise
79 Brixton Village
Coldharbour Lane
Brixton
SW2, 8PS
Tel: 0207 733 2868/0870 737 5000
Email: www.zawadi-enterprises.co.uk
Arts and crafts
Africabeyond
The Africa Beyond website launched on 6 March 2007.
Information, discussion and exploration of African arts, the organisation also partners with other arts organisation on African-themed cultural events.
Websites: www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond
Heritage Ceramics
Founded in 1984, Heritage Ceramics is a collective of highly trained and practising African artists and designers based in Middlesex. A fully equipped studio provides comprehensive in-house vocational training in all aspects of ceramics, pottery and sculpture (basic and advanced).
Unit A5
Aladdin Business Centre
426 Long Drive
Greenford
Middlesex
UB6 8UH
Tel: 020 8575 0500
Email: info@heritageceramics.org
Website: www.heritageceramics.org
Tribal Gathering London (crafts and gifts)
A shop and gallery space, Tribal Gathering sells masks, sculptures, furniture, jewellery and paintings from Angola, Zambia, Somalia and other African countries.
1 Westbourne Grove Mews
W11
Tel: 020 7221 6650
Notting Hill Gate tube/Westbourne Park tube.
Guruve
An online gallery and ethical business promoting contemporary African art. The site features information on artists from sub-Saharan Africa working in a range of media. Guruve’s offline activities include UK exhibitions and a regular stall at:
Spitalfields Traders’ Market
Brushfield Street
London E1
Liverpool Street tube/rail/bus
Tuesday to Friday
11am – 3pm by request
Website: www.guruve.com
Kambani
This not-for-profit arts organisation was set up with the aim of supporting under-represented African artists and engaging children in cultural awareness initiatives through programmes of creative writing and other atistic expression.
Website: www.kambani.com
Black Women in the Arts
BWA supports and promotes the artistic works of women from the African and African-Caribbean communities in the UK through programming events aimed at semi-established and new artists working across the visual and performing arts as well as other areas of the creative industries.
Website: www.blackwomenart.org.uk
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