Sierra Leone’s Fantacee Wiz describes herself as “a folk singer, a poet, a film maker, writer, activist, humanitarian, social influencer and a left-wing feminist.”

She also describes herself as sapio demisexual, which she says means she looks for “brain stimulation, sexual intelligence, and emotional intelligence” in a partner.

Fantacee Wiz releases an EP this week entitled Karo Kura which means new moon in the Korankoh and Mandingo languages, and in it she expresses her new found self-confidence, both musically and as a woman.

One track, Free, is particularly exuberant and defiant. Fantacee Wiz has been on a journey from abuse to celebration:

Quote Message: My spiritual journey started about seven years ago where I discovered myself and paid attention when it comes to sex, because before I was just having sex for, you know, having it. I am a survivor of rape so I had to struggle with that for quite some time. I took time in saying I am a very sexual person, how about I discover myself.”
My spiritual journey started about seven years ago where I discovered myself and paid attention when it comes to sex, because before I was just having sex for, you know, having it. I am a survivor of rape so I had to struggle with that for quite some time. I took time in saying I am a very sexual person, how about I discover myself.”

Another song on the EP, Sabi, Fantacee Wiz describes in this way:

Quote Message: Sabi is a very sexual song. It is about my sexuality and my dreams and fantasies and how I want sex to be like, now, this age and time that I’m in.”

Sabi is a very sexual song. It is about my sexuality and my dreams and fantasies and how I want sex to be like, now, this age and time that I’m in.”
Fantacee Wiz’s sound reflects the fact that she comes from Kabala, a town right in the north of Sierra Leone near the border with Guinea, and her voice is reminiscent at times of the divas of Mali.

But the most striking thing about her is her willingness, as a woman in a deeply patriarchal society, to talk and sing so triumphantly about herself as a sexual being.