Kunyaza is a traditional African technique promising intense wet orgasms for women during heterosexual encounters. 

The ancient technique from Rwanda began with a woman, was passed down by women and is mainly taught by women, known as ssengas (female sex educators).

Below are four prominent female sex educators of kunyaza;

In 2016, Dusabe was featured in Olivier Jourdain’s kunyaza documentary film Sacred Water, where she was the film’s protagonist.

2. Valentine Njoroge, Kenyan Feminist
Sex and feminist sex writer, Valentine Njoroge hosts an online show called Ask Valentine, to ‘awaken African sexuality.’

A self-proclaimed feminist, Njoroge tackles women’s issues in contemporary Kenya, challenges traditional relationship and says that “talking about sex is easily the biggest taboo (in Kenya).”

Njoroge is committed to promoting female sexuality and pleasure for African women.

​Njoroge is also a panellist on The She Word, an TV programme produced by BBC Africa.

3. Betty Nalongo, Ugandan Sex Educator
Ugandan ssenga,  Betty Katana Nalongo, teaches women in her village, the kachabali (kunyaza) technique to ensure a healthy sex life.

From the Baganda tribe in Uganda, Nalongo was subject to a documentary piece by a Kenyan journalist who interviewed her in Kampala, Uganda, which aired on the Dutch public broadcaster, VPRO for the Metropolis TV Show.

4. Angelica Lindsey-Ali, The Village Auntie
Certified sexual health educator Angelica Lindsey-Ali, also known as ‘The Village Auntie’ is a kunyaza expert and lecturer who offers practical advice and resources for “reconnecting women with traditional African femininity and sexuality from an Islamic perspective.”

Inspired by female sex educators in African villages, Lindsey-Ali aims to revive the role of the ssenga tradition to the Americas where she introduces women from different ethnic backgrounds and religions to traditional African beauty and sexual practices such as kunyaza, vaginal steaming, African waistbeads, qasil (soap leaf), huruud (turmeric) and twerk dancing.

A trailblazer in the field of traditional African sexuality in the United States, Lindsey-Ali has garnered much praise for her workshops and retreats on sexual health and female pleasure. ​

Kunyaza is a traditional sexual technique which helps women experience multiple orgasms and female ejaculation with a male partner. This African technique involves the stimulation of the clitoris (“K-Spot”) with the penis head in horizontal and zigzagging movements.
 
The K-Spot ​
The K-Spot refers to the internal and external part of the clitoris; including the clitoral glans, crus clitoris, and corpus cavernosum.

90% of women report ejaculation from kunyaza, according to Rwandan sexologist Vestine Dusabe. American sexual health educator, Angelica Lindsey-Ali, also known as The Village Auntie, said 95% of her female students self-reported wet-orgasms after learning about the technique.
 
“It’s the easiest and most effective technique to achieve female ejaculation,” Lindsey-Ali says.   
 
Research has also found that kunyaza is an effective technique for women suffering female orgasmic disorder and it can trigger an orgasm in less than five minutes, says Dr. Nsekuye Bizimana.

 
African Kama Sutra
Originally from Rwanda, east Africa, kunyaza is also practised in Uganda and Kenya where it is known as kachabali. In recent years it has grown in popularity in Belgium, Brazil, Germany, and the United States of America.
 
Olivier Jourdain, the Belgian director of the kunyaza documentary Sacred Water, said, “I was amazed to discover a culture of sexuality in Rwanda, opposed to our Western approach, which is usually much more individual. Were we talking about some kind of African Kama Sutra?”
 

Others have described kunyaza as ‘African tantra.’  Similar to tantra sex, kunyaza is said to bring lovers closer together emotionally and spiritually by channelling dormant sexual energy through the body’s energy centres.

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Sacred Sensuality
According to traditional Rwandan culture, the female orgasm is sacred and men are expected to ensure their wives are well-satisfied in the bedroom. It’s widely believed that women have a God-given right to pleasure.
 
Sex for pleasure was not only socially acceptable but it was highly recommended in pre-colonial Africa before the Europeans brought their prudish attitudes to African societies.
 
“The concept that a happy, healthy society is one where the women are sexually satisfied intuitively makes a lot of sense. When female ejaculation is treated like a myth, women are held back from accessing all that their bodies are truly capable of and men are disempowered from fully pleasuring their partners,” says journalist Natasha Gillezeau.

The Secret to Female Pleasure
German-based Rwandan researcher Dr. Nsekuye Bizimana authored a number of books in German and French about Rwandan culture and the sexual practice of kunyaza.
 
However, the first book in English to explore Rwanda’s sexual history and the kunyaza tradition was recently published in November 2018.
 
The book, Kunyaza: the Secret to Female Pleasure, examines the cultural impact of Rwanda’s pleasure-based sensual tradition and analyses cultural attitudes towards female ejaculation.