Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | |
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Born | London, England |
Nationality | Ghanaian |
Occupation(s) | Writer, blogger, communications specialist |
Known for | Writing on women's rights and sexuality |
Notable work | The Sex Lives of African Women |
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a Ghanaian feminist writer and blogger. She co-founded award-winning blog Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women and has written for
Life
Sekyiamah was born in
She was also awarded a
Sekyiamah co-founded the blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, to help widen discussion of sex and sexuality by African women and provide a forum for them to talk openly.[3][4] She won the best overall blog and best activist blog prizes at the 2013 Ghana Blogging and Social Media Awards and best overall blog again in 2014.[3] In March 2011, she was recognised by Arise magazine as one of "Ghana's Change Makers".[2] Sekyiamah is the convener for Fab Fem, a feminist group that meets regularly in Accra.[2]
Sekyiamah has written articles for
Sekyiamah works as the Director of Communications at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).[6] She is a member of the Black Feminism Forum Working Group.[9] She co-authored Creating Spaces and Amplifying Voices: The First Ten Years of the African Women's Development Fund on the early history of the fund.[7] She also wrote Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women, a collection of interviews with women from across Africa on topics including feminism, politics and the arts that came about through her work with the AWDF.[2][7][10]
Sekyiamah was a speaker at the 2015 Writivism Festival in Kampala, Uganda, and the 2016 Aké Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria.[11][12]
In 2021, Sekyiamah had an anthology entitled The Sex Lives of African Women published by Dialogue,[1][13] described in a review by Margaret Busby as "an extraordinarily dynamic work".[14] A stage adaptation was subsequently performed in Nairobi, Kenya.[15]
In December 2022, she was named on the BBC's 100 Women list as one of the world's inspiring and influential women of the year.[16]
References
- ^ a b Malik, Nesrine (24 July 2021). "Polygamy in Senegal, lesbian hookups in Cairo: inside the sex lives of African women". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". Cultures Uganda.
- ^ a b Fascendini, Flavia (8 May 2014). "Interview with Nana Darkoa: Adventures from the bedroom of an African woman". Gender IT.
- ^ a b c "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". This Is Africa. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". openDemocracy.
- ^ a b "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ a b c "Nana Darkoa to read at Goethe-Institut". Graphic Online. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Standpoint: Adventures from Our Bedrooms – Blogging about diverse erotic experiences" (PDF). Feminist Africa. 16: 142–145. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Standing on African Feminist Land". AWID 2016 International Forum. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women". Good Reads. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Waweru, Nduta (26 June 2015). "The Writivism Festival 2015: Exploring all things literature". The Star. Kenya. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Salihu, Addurrahim (27 November 2016). "Travelogue: From Kaduna to Abeokuta, the City Under the Rock • Olisa Blogazine". Olisa Blogazine. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ISBN 9780349701653.
- ^ Busby, Margaret (4 August 2021). "The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah review – extraordinarily dynamic". The Guardian.
- ^ Dahir, Abdi Latif (16 June 2022). "A Book Has Women in Africa Talking About Sex". The New York Times.
- ^ "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year? - BBC News". BBC. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
External links
- Adventures from the bedrooms of African women blog
- Fiona Leonard, "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah: Opening doors to African women's bedrooms", Global Voices, 31 March 2011.