An African feminist movement creating spaces to explore sexuality, pleasure, embodiment and collective liberation through festivals, storytelling, art, healing and education.
Extravaganza! 2026
Sankofa
African Sexualities and Traditions from a Feminist Lens
Benin • 28-29 Nov
A Festival Rooted in Freedom
The Sexual Freedom Festival exists because conversations about sexuality, pleasure, bodily autonomy and collective care deserve spaces where they can be explored openly, creatively and through an African feminist lens.
Who Is This Space For?
Whether you are an African feminist, a member of a queer community, an artist, organiser, healer, storyteller, body worker, pleasure practitioner or movement builder, the Sexual Freedom Festival invites you into a community committed to exploring sexuality, pleasure, embodiment and collective liberation.
Gathering is an old practice on this continent
Across many African cultures, gathering has long been a way of sharing knowledge, celebrating life, resolving conflict and imagining collective futures. The Sexual Freedom Festival continues that tradition in its own contemporary way.
The Sexual Freedom Festival is sustained by a growing community of African feminists, queer communities, artists, organisers, healers, storytellers, educators and movement builders who believe that conversations about sexuality, pleasure and collective liberation can transform how we live, create and care for one another.
Whether you're joining us at Extravaganza! 2026, exploring our resources, sharing your work or discovering the movement for the first time, there is a place for you within this evolving community.
Every conversation, every gathering, every story and every act of collective care helps shape the future we are imagining together.
Join the Journey
Wherever you begin, through the festival, through a conversation, through a resource or through community, we invite you to become part of a growing movement imagining more liberated futures together.
Continue the Journey
The conversations sparked at the Sexual Freedom Festival don't end when the convening closes.
They continue through stories, ideas, creative practice and resources that invite deeper learning, reflection and dialogue throughout the year.
