On 18 August 2026, I presented my PhD scholarship online for Sol Plaatje University. In this seminar, I explored how mobility shapes the everyday lives, identities and experiences of sex workers. The presentation examined mobility as critical to...
Yingwana, N. (2025). Sex Work in Africa. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. . Abstract:Sex work in Africa is shaped by complex intersections of gender, sexuality, labour, migration, colonialism, law...
Yingwana, N. (2022). Queering Sex Work and Mobility. Anti-Trafficking Review, (19), 66–86. . [OPEN ACCESS download here] Abstract:This paper explores the intersections of sex work, mobility, and gendered sexualities through a queer lens. It is based...
Yingwana, N. (2022). Feminist Participatory Action Research in African Sex Work Studies. In A. Bezuidenhout, S. Mnwana & K. Von Holdt. (Eds.) Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South, pp. 144–170. Bristol...
Yingwana, N. and Vidima, N. (2022). Reading in-between the sheets: In conversation about SWEAT’s #SayHerName. In N. Falkof, N., Phadke, S., & Roy, S. (Eds.) Intimacy and Injury, pp. 76–101. Manchester University Press. DOI: . Abstract:Sex...
As part of the Count Me In!* initiative, the Counting Sex Workers In! campaign ran from October 26 to November 10, 2020. The campaign shone a spotlight on sex worker-led advocacy by raising the voices of sex workers of all...
Ntokozo Yingwana, Rebecca Walker, and Alex Etchart, ‘Sex Work,Migration, and Human Trafficking in South Africa: From polarised arguments to potential partnerships’, Anti-Trafficking Review, issue 12, 2019, pp. 74-90. DOI: ;[OPEN...
By Sally Shackleton, Elsa Oliveira, Rebecca Walker and Ntokozo Yingwana Marcel van der Watt’s recent opinion piece on the effects of decriminalising sex work in South Africa makes such outlandish claims that it’s tempting to...
Ntokozo Yingwana. (2018). “We Fit in the Society by Force”: Sex Work and Feminism in Africa. Meridians, 17 (2): 279–295. Duke University Press [OPEN ACCESS for first 3-months]. Abstract: What does it mean to be an African sex worker feminist? In...
Yingwana, N. (2017). “I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of Africa. Feminist Africa (22). [OPEN ACCESS] Abstract: Although being an African, a sex worker and a feminist are often considered to be incongruent...
