Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah | |
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Occupation | Writer, blogger, businesswoman |
Known for | Writing on women's rights and sexuality |
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a Ghanaian feminist writer and blogger. She co-founded award-winning blog Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women and has written for The Guardian and Open Democracy. Sekyiamah is a senior communications manager for the Association for Women's Rights in Development and a member of the Black Feminism Forum Working Group which organised the historic first Black Feminist Forum in Bahia, Brazil.
Life
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has a diploma in performance coaching and a certificate in conflict mediation and has worked as a life coach and a public speaker.[1] She was also awarded a bachelor of science degree in communications and cultural studies by the University of North London and a master of science degree in gender and development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1] She has also worked as a leadership trainer for London's Metropolitan Police.[1]
Sekyiamah co-founded the blog, Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, to help widen discussion of sex and sexuality by African women and provide a forum for them to talk openly.[2][3] She won the best overall blog and best activist blog prizes at the 2013 Ghana Blogging and Social Media Awards and best overall blog again in 2014.[2] In March 2011 Sekyiamah was recognised by Arise magazine as one of "Ghana's Change Makers".[1] Sekyiamah is the convener for Fab Fem, a feminist group that meets regularly in Accra.[1]
Sekyiamah has written articles for The Guardian, This is Africa and Open Democracy.[3][4][5] She wrote the Communications Handbook for Women’s Rights Organisations and has had short stories published in anthologies in many countries.[6] Sekyiamah has written widely on the sexuality of African women and has also had an article (Standpoint: Adventures from Our Bedrooms – Blogging about diverse erotic experiences) published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Feminist Africa.[3][7]
Sekyiamah works as senior communications manager for the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).[5] She is a member of the Black Feminism Forum Working Group.[8] She co-authored Creating Spaces and Amplifying Voices: The First Ten Years of the African Women's Development Fund on the early history of the fund.[6] She also wrote Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women, a collection of interviews with women from across Africa on topics including feminism, politics and the arts that came about through her work with the AWDF.[1][6][9]
Sekyiamah was a speaker at the 2015 Writivism Festival in Kampala, Uganda and the 2016 Ake Books and Arts Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria.[10][11] She and her sister Abynnah Sekyiamah own MAKSI, a Ghanaian fashion brand.[12][13]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". Cultures Uganda.
- 1 2 "Interview with Nana Darkoa: Adventures from the bedroom of an African woman". Gender IT.
- 1 2 3 "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". This Is Africa. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". openDemocracy.
- 1 2 "Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Nana Darkoa to read at Goethe-Institut – Graphic Online". Graphic Online. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "Standpoint: Adventures from Our Bedrooms – Blogging about diverse erotic experiences" (PDF). Feminist Africa. 16: 142–145. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "Standing on African Feminist Land". AWID 2016 International Forum. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women". Good Reads. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "The Writivism Festival 2015: Exploring all things literature". The Star, Kenya. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "Travelogue: From Kaduna to Abeokuta, the City Under the Rock • Olisa Blogazine". Olisa Blogazine. 27 November 2016. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "MAKSI launches maiden fashion boutique in Accra – citifmonline". Citi FM. 14 December 2015. Archived from the original on 14 December 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ↑ "The Team". MAKSI Clothing. Retrieved 10 November 2017.