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‘Our feminist ancestor’: Ama Ata Aidoo, author, activist and African heroine Guardian Development Jul 5, 2023
‘The Sex Lives of African Women’: Groundbreaking book gets people talking The 51% FRANCE24 Jun 9, 2023
Exclusive: Millions in Western aid flowed to churches in Ghana despite years of campaigning against LGBTQI+ rights CNN Dec 13, 2022
5 inspiring acts of feminist resistance in 2021 Open Democracy Dec 22, 2021
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah review – extraordinarily dynamic The Guardian Aug 4, 2021
How I became an advocate for sex workers’ rights Open Democracy Jan 4, 2021
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (@nas009) is an African feminist, writer, and blogger based in Ghana. Her book The Sex Lives of African Women was published in 2021.
In 2022 she was named on BBC’s annual 100 Women list of influential and inspiring women around the world.
She is the former Director of Communications and Tactics at the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (@AWID), a global feminist organization with more than 5,000 individual and institutional members from 164 countries. She was a member of the Black Feminism Forum Working Group which organized the historic first Black Feminist Forum in Bahia, Brazil in September, 2016.
Nana Darkoa co-founded the award-winning blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, and has written for The Guardian, Open Democracy, Feminist Africa and This is Africa, among other publications.