Feminist investigative journalism is about making investigative journalism agendas, as well as investigative teams, leaderships and methodologies more inclusive of diverse communities and issues that ...
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a communications strategist, facilitator, and a writer. She has over 15 years of training, facilitation and leadership experience in feminist organisations like the African Women’s Development Fund and The Association for Women's Rights in Development where she served as the Director of Communications and Tactics.
Nana Darkoa has a proven track record of developing and delivering strategic communications programmes across media, public sector and non-governmental organisations. She has a deep understanding of digital technologies for feminist activism, and is widely recognised as a key African feminist working at the intersections of gender, sexualities and technologies.
Nana Darkoa is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Institute of Journalism and Social Change, and leads MAKEDA PR, a boutique feminist communications agency. She is also the author of The Sex Lives of African Women, and hosts the podcast Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women as well as And then what?, a podcast about the impact of journalism.
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Events IJF 2025
The African Renaissance: how Africans are disrupting and redefining journalism
Historically, African voices have been underrepresented and misrepresented in global media. Calls for the decolonization of journalism and the global media landscape more broadly have consistently gro...
For way too long now, mainstream media in the Global South--particularly in Asia and Africa--has underreported and often misreported the identities, stories and issues of LGBTQIA+ persons. The coverag...
