Seeking Sexual Freedom - African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is on a quest to encourage African women across the globe to live their best sex lives. As co-founder of the sex-positive feminist blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women , she has promoted sexual pleasure for African women for over a decade. In this book she shares lessons she''s learnt along the way, and insights gained from research and conversations with sex-positive African feminists, as well as knowledge gained from a series of sexual freedom workshops she has run with diverse groups of women. We Need to Talk about Sex also excavates and reclaims traditional African sexual knowledge and practices in ways that can serve the contemporary African woman. Nana recounts conversations with women who hold responsibilities for organising traditional practices such as the dipo puberty rites in Ghana and the Ssengas (traditional marriage counsellors) in Uganda. And each chapter of the book ends with a bulleted list of journal prompts, and exercises that you can do on their own to find your own way towards sexual liberation.

About the author

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women and Seeking Sexual Freedom. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, CNN, Essence and more. Her short stories have been published in It Wasn't Exactly Love and The Pot and Other Stories. She is the cofounder of the award-winning podcast and blog Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.

Product details

• Authors: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
• Assisted by: Layne Priscilla (Translation)
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2026
• EAN: 9780349703411
• ISBN: 978-0-349-70341-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Gender studies: women, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs