Adventures From The Bedrooms Of African Women
Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women began as a popular blog for African women to speak openly about their sex lives. The podcast, hosted by Ghanaian founders Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Malaka Grant, carries on in this tradition, exploring African women’s experiences of sex, sexuality and pleasure.
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Meet Malaka Grant and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah: friends since 1994, sex bloggers since 2009, now podcasters, and always #BFFFL.
In this new series, Nana Darkoa and Malaka welcome you into their bedrooms, and the bedrooms of African women where they uncover and discuss all things sex, sexuality, and pleasure.
They kick off and celebrate their friendship, expose how little they used to know about sex, and share their excitement for the ...
Did your obsession with romance novels mess up your sex life? Did you grow up wishing it was Femi on the cover, not Fabio? This week, the aunties Malaka and Nana Darkoa return to their teen reads and question how the genre tantalized and traumatized them.
Inspired by an Adventures From The Bedrooms of African Women blogpost written by contributor, Voluptuous Voltarian – or VV - they dig into the problematic power dynamics of novels...
“What was the point of hurrying?” Sex toy guru Iheoma Obibi says, when asked what advice she would give her 20-year-old self. “I would've learned and understood my body better.”
In this episode, sexy ‘aunties’ tell Nana Darkoa and Malaka what they have learned about their bodies, and share what we all have to look forward to in the bedroom as we get older. The good news is, it’s plenty!
Could burning the rice set fire to your sex l...
With society’s traditionally binary views on gender, so much of what it means to be a ‘man’ is tied to the omnipotent power and performance of the penis. So, when Malaka and Nana Darkoa decided to explore the topic of dicks and masculinity, they expected the usual ‘size matters’ arguments to come through.
But, they soon learned that BDE may not actually have much to do with what’s in your pants. This episode gets a surprising take...
A decade ago, Nana Darkoa wrote ‘How can you tell when a woman orgasms?’ for the Adventures blog. It remains one of the most popular posts to date. So, in this episode, Nana and Malaka dig into the mystery and mystique of the orgasm.
“It just feels like something's bubbling under, and then there's an explosion of pleasure,” Kenyan sex educator Kaz says. “It's a Hiroshima of pleasure.”
We’re talking about everything from science...
“That thing changed my life, and my expectations as far as sex is concerned,” Shazz Nderitu, a Kenyan comedian and blogger at queendom.blog admits about kink.
So, in this episode, Nana Darkoa and Malaka are encouraged to bring elements of kink into their bedrooms, as connoisseurs share their experiences and shatter stereotypes about BDSM.
As our hosts explore contradictions, care and consent within the kink world, they discuss it...
“Pleasure is critical.” Zimbabwean master of all trades, Tapiwa Guzha, tells us.
In this episode, Malaka and Nana Darkoa ask you to slow down the pace and catch your breath as Tapiwa and Namibian artist and tantric coach Nakashwa Julia ya Hango talk us through how to curate and celebrate a session of self-pleasure.
“When I'm finding myself in that place of, ‘I'm feeling really emotional or angry,’ then I love to set up a little sp...
“We pretend like there is a manual, but there isn't,” Ghanaian LGBTQ+ activist Moh says about sex. “So we just have to go with the flow, what makes us comfortable.”
In this final episode of the season, Nana Darkoa and Malaka bring together a fabulous panel of ‘semi’-experts to answer your questions about sex and relationships.
In a candid roundtable discussion, Nana Akosua Hanson; creator of the graphic novel, Moongirls; Kinna Lik...
We are excited to announce that Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women has been nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award in the Podcasts: Best co-host category. This is a huge honor and we are grateful for the recognition.
Voting for the Webby People's Voice Award is now open and will close on April 20th, 2023. We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to cast your vote for Adventures from the Bedrooms of Afri...
Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women Podcast is live on May 23rd, 7:30pm at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Join host Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Malaka Grant on stage with Oloni, the sexpert author; actress, director, author Kelechi Okafor; and comedian and author Insecure’s own Yvonne Orji as they explore African women’s experiences of sex, sexuality, pleasure, and so much more.Join us for an extraordinar...
Following a sold out live show in London, Malaka and Nana Darkoa kick off the season with one of their star guests, British-Nigerian sexpert Oloni. Her book ‘The Big O’ should really be given to everyone over the age of consent!
Oloni might be famous for her raunchy Twitter chats, but she is also dedicated to seriously educating people about sex.
“Society has told us that sex is something that's done to us,” Oloni explains. “That...
Irish-Nigerian author, singer and actor Obioma Ugoala has experienced fetishization and prejudice playing Shakespearean nobility and musical generals on London’s stage.
He discusses the promise and pain of Black masculinity and sexuality in his book ‘The Problem with my Normal Penis.’ The paperback version was released with the new title, ‘The Making of a Man (and why we're so afraid to talk about it.)
Inspired to write it after a ...
Malaka and Nana Darkoa may be #BFFFLs, but there’s always space in their bedroom for their girls.
In a new occasional series, Malaka invites one of her besties - Ghanaian actress and celebrity Lydia Forson - to share all the things about single and married life that they haven’t spoken about before.
The Adventures From the Bedrooms of African Women Podcast is a production of AQ Studios in partnership with Masi Media. Selly Thiam i...
’Feminist Giant’ Mona Eltahawy fights shame by voicing the quiet stuff out loud. As she deals with the menopause, she says ‘instead of the monthly shedding of the lining of my uterus, I've been monthly shedding the patriarchal fuckery I've been socialized in.’ She talks about strength, celibacy and the importance of moisturizing your vagina.
Mona’s Essay: https://www.feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-your-vagina
The Adventures From t...
Yvonne Orji is an actress, comedienne, author, karaoke queen, and if sanctified stripper was a real job title she says, “I could been out here living my best Chocolate Testimony life. That would be my stripper name,” she jokes. “I would be dropping it low and dropping the Word.”
As a committed Christian, Yvonne is waiting until marriage to have sex. She tells Malaka why the wait is sexy; explains why conversations about abstinence ...
“I think some of the fear is that you have to have all the answers.” Jet Setting Jasmine says. “Let's bust that myth right there.”
Being a sex positive parent might seem like a big task, but if you listen to this podcast right now “after you heard what the title is, you are already on that journey.”
Nana Darkoa and Malaka speak to licensed clinical psychotherapist and sex worker, Jet Setting Jasmine, and mother and daughter duo, I...
In today’s episode, listeners invite you into their bedrooms.
Ami questions what dating actually means, and asks herself whether she’s ready to activate her ‘ho phase.’ Jessica has a sexy shower and reminisces about a lost love. Sexual honesty helps Selma move past assault. And Bridget was all ready for her own ‘ho phase’ world tour, until a surprise encounter with ‘Black Jesus’ in Kenya.
Listen to the celebration, challenges, hea...
If you Google, ‘African film’ and ‘sex,’ you largely find articles about sexual violence. But, why are our lives being portrayed this way?
Enter Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu. It’s her ‘life mission’ to show African sexuality on film, as she does in ‘Rafiki,’ a beautiful lesbian love story that is banned in her home country.
“In every project, I truly try to figure out what does it mean to show tenderness and love? What does it ...
Kelechi Okafor is an actress, a podcaster, a pole dance studio owner, a mama, and the woman who encourages us all to ‘Say Our Mind.’ She sits down with Malaka to talk about body positivity, the end of relationships, and what an Ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon jungle taught her about unconditional love.
Kelechi’s Book: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edge-of-here-kelechi-okafor/7302144?ean=9781398712997
The Adventures From the Bedr...
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