Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a feminist activist, writer and blogger. She is the co-founder of the Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women award-winning blog that focuses on African women, sex and sexualities. She works with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) as Director of Communications and Media.
If you read Three Women and thought, "Where are all the non-white
people?", this book has the answer
*Cosmopolitan*
A boundary-breaking, fascinating and deeply affirming set of
accounts that emphasises the necessity of allowing African women to
tell the stories of their sexuality on their own terms
*Otegha Uwagba*
Such a beautiful read, like chatting to a friend over a cuppa. This
is the intimate, insightful read that I didn't know I needed. Just
brilliant
*Dorothy Koomson*
A captivating diasporic work of sensual geographies. Teeming with
freedom and agency. Utterly triumphant
*Irenosen Okojie*
A beautiful, delicate and sometimes brutal exploration of African
Womanhood and sexuality, honest and moving. A vital treasure
*Bolu Babalola*
Extraordinarily dynamic...Here is a book like none you will have
read before. The women speak openly and invariably for the first
time about their experiences of sex and relationships as they seek
to claim individual agency, however that expresses itself. They
share emotion-filled stories with honesty, addressing everyday
personal dramas within the wider context in which self-worth and
confidence are affected by racism and patriarchy, with revolution
in the streets and revolution in the sheets being two sides of the
same coin...With sensitivity, this book has facilitated astonishing
breaking of silences
*The Guardian*
I just didn't want it to end. Each and every story is unique,
powerful ... A global, ambitious collection that hums with the
author's love for the subject and her interviewees
*Goodreads*
These personal stories reveal a mind-blowing variety of
sexualities, sex lives and relationships. Fascinating.
*Bernardine Evaristo*
To hear these stories told with such agency shouldn't be a novelty,
but the sheer fact of their existence makes this book truly
important
*Bristol Life*
Fantastically interesting and original
*Francesca Beauman, author of The Literary Almanac*
Overflowing with candor, vulnerability, and juiciness, this
collection of raw, tender stories that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has so
lovingly gathered will upend all of your assumptions and
stereotypes. These mothers, activists, writers, sex workers, and
others share painful truths, evolving glories, and journeys toward
love and freedom, in their own words. They are trans, queer,
heterosexual, kinky, and say, 'To hell with labels.' Facing down
dangers and double standards, they are healing. The Sex Lives of
African Women captures the breadth and depth of the Diaspora with
the intimacy of looking in a mirror. Marvelous!
*Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies*
The Sex Lives of African Women is a Pan-African feminist love
offering to our ancestors, women living across the Diaspora and
future generations to come. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah delivers this
love with honesty, levity and delicious prose. This book satiates
my appetite for stories that take the interior lives of Black,
African and Afro-descendant women seriously. It is simply
unparalleled and right on time.
*Charlene A. Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer,
and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements*
In these emotionally charged and refreshingly honest essays, this
collection gives literal shape to women's sexuality and desires.
Nothing less than stunning. Essential read! I couldn't put it
down.
*Nicole Dennis-Benn, bestselling author of Patsy and Here Comes the
Sun*
This collection affirms what we've known all along: African women
are reclaiming their bodies and taking ownership of their sexual
destinies. Every single story leaves you feeling deliciously
empowered.
*Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's
Wives.*
Everyone will come away standing a little taller and breathing a
little lighter, buoyed by the affirmation that we are all normal
and that the marginal is central. The Sex Lives of African Women is
a safe space: it is pure, unadulterated freedom.
*Jane Link, Big Black Books*
Beautiful, compelling reads that open up whole new ways of seeing
and thinking about the world. They're both full of information,
both made me think and both gave me a very welcome insight into
other people's experiences and what you can learn from them
*i Book of the Year*
A Ghanaian feminist and activist relays stories of sexual freedom
and relationships. Mostly told pseudonymously, they are touching,
joyful, defiant - and honest
*The Economist Best Books of 2021*
This revelatory collection highlights the diverse experiences of
sex, sexualities, and relationships of African women and the
journeys - both mental and physical - that they have undergone to
own their sexuality...a deep insight into the complex tapestry of
African women's sexuality and bestows upon all women inspirational
examples to living a truly liberated life.
*The British Backlist Best of 2021*
Sekyiamah does an excellent job of reminding us of the complexity
of sex and relationships, and how these are affected by an
ever-shifting interplay of personality, religion, family dynamics,
cultural background, personal finances and life stages.
*The TLS*
A collection of powerful, liberating, raw and sometimes
heart-breaking real-life stories from women across Africa and the
diaspora. Six years in the making, it shatters the taboos that have
until now surrounded many of the issues and experiences of African
women, who have unfurled the most private area of their lives in
its pages.
*New African*
No matter how you identify sexually, readers will resonate with the
honesty of these stories, and hopefully feel more courageous to
live their truth each day.
*Bust*
So important and groundbreaking in its treatment of African women's
sexualities it deserves to be consumed in every possible medium
*NoViolet Bulawayo*
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