Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah assesses the current state of reproductive health services, showing how stigma and growing religious fundamentalism hinder women from fully accessing a range of reproductive health services.

For a marriage to be feminist, says Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, both parties need to throw conventional gender norms out of the window and chart their own path of what a committed relationship could be like.

The election of Donald Trump as America’s 45th President is terrifying for many reasons. The American people have voted in a known misogynist and racist who throughout his campaign continuously spewed hatred at every marginalized community. When a leopard shows you his spots you should believe him.

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah caught up with Kobby Graham, a DJ, academic and writer popularly known as the Funky Professor.

Ghanaians are calling for the resignation of an MP after he said adulterous women should be stoned to death. Ghanaian society does not expect a man to be faithful to his wife (or even wives); but infidelity in women is not tolerated.

Expats across Africa often lead a charmed life, earning far more than their local counterparts even when they have less experience and local knowledge

The word cougar in its current cultural context sends me into paroxysms of rage. A woman who dates or has sex with a younger man is a cougar and a man who dates younger women is a what? For the older woman there is a strong sense of societal disapproval.

Consent is not always clear-cut. It should be, but sometimes it’s not. In my friend’s view, no doesn’t always mean no. Sometimes it means persuade me. And that for me is where the challenge lies. When does coercion become rape?

I am comforted by the fact that she lived a full life, and in the knowledge that she documented her stories for all of us to benefit from.

“Hey, have you seen Twi porn before?” he asked. “You’re joking” was my response. Twi porn? He put in a DVD and yes; it was a porn film with a heterosexual Ghanaian couple speaking Twi throughout.