by Sihle Tshangela Mazibu
Abstract
This review explores the varying experiences of self-discovery, sensuality and sexuality for African women through a reading of Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s The Sex Lives of African Women. Drawing on the stories of African women in this book, along with my own lived experiences as a queer, polyamorous and pansexual African woman, I engage the ways that women navigate the constraints of patriarchy and societal expectations while claiming and moulding their own paths to sexual autonomy, pleasure and liberation.
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