Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
In 2009, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah co-founded the award winning blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women to create a safe space for African women to chat openly, honestly and safely about sex, sexualities and relationships.
Nana’s writing and content production focuses on African feminism, gender and sexuality. She has been published widely by media platforms including The Guardian, and Open Democracy. She is also a regular vlogger for Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster.
Her short stories can be found in, It Wasn’t Exactly Love, a collection published by Farafina, and The Pot and Other Stories, published by FEMRITE.
Her creative non-fiction book, SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN, documents the sexual experiences of diverse African women from the continent to its global diaspora. It was published by Dialogue books as a lead title in July 2021 and was both an Economist Book of the Year 2021 and a Dorothy Koomson Book of the Year. It is published in the US by Atria Books.
It has been optioned by award-winning actress Uzo Aduba’s new production company, Meyon Media, in partnership with CBS Studios. Uzo’s credits include ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, MRS AMERICA, IN TREATMENT. It will also be developed by Uzo and Dan DeNicola – who previously worked for Hulu, working on shows such as NORMAL PEOPLE, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, and more recently, CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS and the latest season of WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA. The plan is to develop this as a potential returning series.
Nana’s second book, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SEX, will be published by DIalogue Books (UK) and Astra House (US) in 2025.