Kink, BDSM, and fetishism are being increasingly embraced in Africa, with more and more heterosexual, queer, and bisexual men and women making their explicit desires known. What does a ‘kink’ analysis of Black, queer women, and gender-diverse people teach us about sexualities, agency, and life?
Mamello Sejake is an intersectional feminist and researcher exploriing the politics of sexualities, gendered and identity politics, as well as the complexities, contradictions, and politics of pleasure and kink.
Sunga Konji is an artist that creates work that is centred around the rehabilitation of African esteem and the empowerment of Africans across the globe, with a focus on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.
A former Editor of the Time Out Group’s series of guides to Lagos and Abuja, Nana has over 20 years of experience as a writer, editor and cultural consultant. She Founded the digital platform, People’s Stories Project and is also an Associate Lecturer at Omnes Education (London), a liberal arts school that is headquartered in Paris. She has worked in a cultural capacity with global brands and organisations including Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen), Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Rolls Royce Muse (UK), Design Indaba (South Africa) Pernod-Ricard (Paris) and is an ongoing consultant for British Council (UK).