Part travelogue, part manifesto, Seeking Sexual Freedom is the powerful and bold call to pleasure women of all backgrounds need today.
Join acclaimed African feminist and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah as she presents Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom.
While working on The Sex Lives of African Women, Nana had access to the wildest dreams and spiciest realities of women from around the world. But so often, she noticed that something was holding these women back from achieving full liberation and unfettered joy. So, she set out to apply sankofa—which means learning from the past to inform the future—to sex and pleasure, reclaiming African traditions in a quest to achieve sexual freedom.
Nana will take readers across the African continent, from Senegal to Tanzania and beyond, where she met and trains with gurus, "witches", and aunties whose job it is to guide girls through puberty rites and later through "marital training." She will discuss practices like beading and pulling, while highlighting the spiritual and gender-fluid nature of African traditional religions.
Alongside author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Equal To Everything, and Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty, Afua Hirsch, join us for an evening exploring how pleasure, ritual, and inherited wisdom can transform the way we understand ourselves, and how intimacy can become a site of healing and resistance.
"Frank, fearless, and deeply personal, Seeking Sexual Freedom is Sekyiamah's invitation to join her in the revolutionary act of reclaiming pleasure." Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter, Honey, Pig, Bread

The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of Seeking Sexual Freedom (RRP £20) deliverable to any UK address.
The event will initially be broadcast on 27 February at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected].