Hi everyone, welcome back to Doing It, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy.

With me, your host Hannah Whitten. This week, I'm joined by the magnificent Nana De Quas Setschama.

Nana is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women, a brilliant

anthology of stories from a diverse collection of African women exploring sexuality. Nana is also

the co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, a website, podcast and festival

that publishes and creates content that tells stories of African women's experiences around sex, sexuality and pleasure.

Nana is also a communication strategist with a deep understanding of digital technologies for feminist activism and is widely recognized as a key African feminist working at the intersections

of gender, sexualities and technologies. She is also a mother and lives with her daughter in Akra, Ghana.

I was super keen to have Nana on the podcast to speak all about her book and the breadth of

sexual identities and experiences across Africa and how her book

is challenging narrow stereotypes of African women. Nana and I had a brilliant chat all about

the big mix of sexual experiences of the people she features in the book and why she wanted to

put these stories about African women and sex out into the world. She spoke about how African women often

feel pigeonholed into conversations around FGM rather than representing female sexual pleasure

and how the book also offers new perspectives on polygamy and challenges perceptions of the sex

lives of women who have HIV or women who have experienced FGM.

Nana spoke about her own journey with sexuality and pleasure as a queer woman and how working in sex positivity interacts with your personal life.

She also talked all about raising a body positive daughter and we chatted about Nana's experience of solo parenting

and the importance of communal parenting when you are a single parent.

I loved this conversation with Nana as she truly exudes sex positivity from the representation

of African women's sexuality all the way to sex positive parenting.

Please note that we mention miscarriage and FGM in this episode,

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