5 best-selling short stories books like The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Cover of The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

3.98

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a melliflu…

"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under the sun."

-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under the sun."

-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

If you liked the short stories plot in The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Tomorrow Died Yesterday by Chimeka Garricks

1. Tomorrow Died Yesterday

By: Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • african literature
Cover of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin

2. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

By: Lola Shoneyin

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi's Wives,… read more

Similar categories in Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • african literature

3. The River and the Source

By: Margaret A. Ogola

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1995, this novel won both the Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize… read more

Similar categories in Margaret A. Ogola's The River and the Source book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • african literature

4. Stay with Me

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more

Similar categories in Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s Stay with Me book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

5. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas originally released in 1994, it won criti… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Cover of Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen

6. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

Similar categories in Aiwanose Odafen's Tomorrow I Become a Woman book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • feminism
  • africa
  • african literature
Cover of Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

7. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

By: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Damilola Blackburn's Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
Cover of Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku

8. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

By: Damilare Kuku

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • short stories
  • african literature
Cover of A Broken People's Playlist by Chimeka Garricks

9. A Broken People's Playlist

By: Chimeka Garricks

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more

Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's A Broken People's Playlist book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • short stories
  • african literature
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"

-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

Cover of Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right by Ukamaka Olisakwe

10. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

By: Ukamaka Olisakwe

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more

Similar categories in Ukamaka Olisakwe's Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • feminism
  • africa
  • african literature
Cover of The Havoc of Choice by Wanjiru Koinange

11. The Havoc of Choice

By: Wanjiru Koinange

4.31

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

2007, Kenya Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life su… read more

Similar categories in Wanjiru Koinange's The Havoc of Choice book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • african literature
Cover of You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

12. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • lgbt
"if it's real, the distance won't change it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Cover of Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

13. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

Similar categories in Bolu Babalola's Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • short stories
"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

Cover of The Teller of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon

14. The Teller of Secrets

By: Bisi Adjapon

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel—a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening—a feisty Nigerian-Ghan… read more

Similar categories in Bisi Adjapon's The Teller of Secrets book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • feminism
  • africa
  • ghana
  • african literature
Cover of The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

15. The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

3.98

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a melliflu… read more

Similar categories in Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • essays
  • ghana
  • african literature
"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under t…"

-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Cover of Confessions of Nairobi Women by Joan Thatiah

16. Confessions of Nairobi Women

By: Joan Thatiah

4.21

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

There is a story of a woman who confesses to nursing thoughts of wanting to kill her husband, anoth… read more

Similar categories in Joan Thatiah's Confessions of Nairobi Women book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • african literature
  • short stories
Cover of Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two by Joan Thatiah

17. Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two

By: Joan Thatiah

4.11

Format: 156 pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Joan Thatiah's Confessions of Nairobi Women Book Two book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Cover of Confessions of Nairobi Men by Joan Thatiah

18. Confessions of Nairobi Men

By: Joan Thatiah

4.34

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Confessions of Nairobi Men is a culmination of three years Joan Thatiah has spent listening to stor… read more

Similar categories in Joan Thatiah's Confessions of Nairobi Men book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

Cover of THURSDAYS by Jackson Biko

19. THURSDAYS

By: Jackson Biko

3.99

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

Vina Wira band. On the drums is a guy who also writes code. The lead singer is a gifted songstress … read more

Similar categories in Jackson Biko's THURSDAYS book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • african literature
Cover of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

20. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Little Rot book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

  • africa
  • lgbt
Cover of Let Me Call You Back by Jackson Biko

21. Let Me Call You Back

By: Jackson Biko

4.47

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Samora isn't unlike any man who suddenly finds himself in a pickle.A man with a young family. A man… read more

Similar categories in Jackson Biko's Let Me Call You Back book and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

13 Top africa books like The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

4.25

The River and the Source

Margaret A. Ogola

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow I Become a Woman

Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

View all the books

13 Best fiction books like Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku

Transform Your Habits

Daughters Who Walk This Path

Yejide Kilanko

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Hairdresser of Harare

Tendai Huchu

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

4.25

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.