A review by wamboikay
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

3.0

I didn’t enjoy this at the start because of the repetitive themes and most stories seemed to be of African women living in the diaspora. This means that they’re having a different life experience to women who live on the African continent. At the end the author writes “…my conversation with her was a reminder that many black women, particularly heterosexual Black women in Europe, feel unloved, undesired and unseen by straight black men.” The stories became slightly more inclusive as I got through the book and there was more about the origins of how they learned about sex. This is an important book that will bring some form of healing to many.
Loved this line from the epilogue, “ I felt most inspired by the women living life on their own terms, who buck tradition, and fearlessly create and recreate their lives.”