Rogue Women Takeover

In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy.

About the episode

How do women learn about sex, and how do those lessons change across generations? In this episode, Valerie Asiimwe Amani takes us beyond the idea that there is only one African way of teaching sexuality. Drawing from Tanzanian and broader African perspectives, we explore how women have passed down knowledge about intimacy, relationships, desire, and womanhood, and how those teachings continue to evolve alongside changing cultures, religions, and feminist movements. Together, we ask not only what we inherited, but what is worth carrying forward.  

Guest Bio

Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and founder of Art Aunty. Her practice draws on feminist epistemologies, spiritual ecologies, and African cosmologies.

Host Bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change.

Credits

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Host: Ann Kay Holland

Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah

Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay