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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nesrine Malik

‘Imagine, if everyone had a sex auntie’: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on tradition as a basis for pleasure

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Harnessing sexual care … Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian pictures/Nyani Quarmyne

I first met Nana five years ago. The Ghanaian writer had just published The Sex Lives of African Women, a book I still think about often for how surprising and eye-opening its accounts of contemporary, quietly radical sexual practices in parts of the continent are.

She is back with Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom. When I spoke to her, I found a writer in transition who is still as surprising.

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