Am I a woman? What makes a woman and when do we become her? “Young Womanhood” is a deep-dive into the under-acknowledged, under-explored transition to womanhood – as told by women from around the world and brought together by Yvette, a young Black woman living in Accra. Spanning themes of race, body, and sex, it is the coming-of-age story we do not get in popular or literary culture.

Yvette YKO Tetteh is a British-Ghanaian writer, creative, and business owner living in Accra. Growing up across cultures and continents, she is insatiably curious about identity, identity making, and selfhood. As winner of the inaugural Kofi Addo Writivism prize for non-fiction by African writers, her writing was published in the anthology, “Sundown and Other Stories.” Her essay “In This Body” was published in Lolwe’s fourth edition (2021).