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Mama Amaya's
A thatched beach hut with a hand-painted ocean mural, banana leaves in the foreground, on Zanzibar's Swahili Coast

East African Inspired Hot Sauce

It Gets Hot in Africa!

Artisan East African-inspired hot sauces, crafted from family recipes and layered with tropical fruit, aromatic spices and balanced heat.

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Our Story

It started with a trip to Zanzibar, a family recipe box, and a name borrowed from an East African tradition of calling parents after their eldest child. Mama Amaya's is still, at heart, a family cooking together.

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Mama Amaya's Jungle Sauce label artwork — a portrait medallion of a woman in traditional headwrap against a savanna scene, above a green wordmark banner reading "Mama Amaya's Jungle Sauce, East African Inspired Hot Sauce, It Gets Hot in Africa!"

Our Flagship

Jungle Sauce

It Gets Hot in Africa!

Our flagship sauce — clean habanero heat rounded out with garlic, coriander and a mellow sweetness from cane vinegar.

What We Stand For

Family

Every recipe started at our own table before it ever reached a bottle.

Authenticity

Real East African flavours and ingredients — never a stereotype.

Quality

Small batches, real ingredients, nothing cutting corners on flavour.

A traditional Dhow boat sailing home at sunset off Zanzibar's Swahili Coast, families gathered at the water's edge

Where the Day Ends, Together

On Zanzibar's Swahili Coast, evenings end the same way they always have — dhows sailing home at sunset, family waiting at the water's edge. That same instinct to gather, to share a meal with whoever's around the table, is what we've tried to bottle.

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A Zanzibar red colobus monkey resting in the forest canopy
Freshly blended Jungle Sauce, close up on the texture of chilli, garlic and herbs
Guava fruit ripening on the tree on Zanzibar
Freshly bottled Jungle Sauce (chunky, left) and Island Sauce (smooth, right), unlabeled ahead of packaging
Philip standing in front of Swinging Micky's Irish Pub on Zanzibar, the open-air bamboo and thatch bar behind him
A whole mahi-mahi laid out on a kitchen counter, ready for prep