Sekyjamah has explained why it’s important to change the global narrative of African women’s sex lives, which so often focuses on controlling fertility and disease.

“Within the international development discourse, whenever African women’s sexual and reproductive health is mentioned, they are spoken about as vectors of disease, or the conversation is about needing to control the fertility of African women,” Sekyjamah said in the CNN interview.

“This discourse leaves out so much, specifically, the importance of African women controlling their own bodies. Pleasure is connected to well-being and so comprehensive sex education is essential to a woman’s full development. If you don’t have control over your body, what can you really have control over?”

African women are sharing their sexual experiences, and it’s so important