At 64, Rosemary Johns is still counting the number of men she has slept with to make ends meet and raise her children.
“I got married at 16, but after some time in marriage, my husband started neglecting us after I gave birth to five children,” recalls the now mother of eight (two have since died and the rest are adults in Tanzania). “I could have had 10 children were it not for two miscarriages,” reveals Rosemary who parted ways with her husband and became a barmaid in Musoma, Tanzania, before relocating to Nairobi where “I joined some women along Digo Road where we would wait for clients day and night and charged Sh5 for our services.”
The price remained the same for more than five years “until it rose to Sh50 and finally over Sh100 in early 2000s, depending on the location,” explains Rosemary who estimates that she could handle up to 40 men “on a good day” and “between five and 10 men on a bad day.”
Rosemary, a staunch baptised Christian who never misses church on Sunday, is considering retirement because “nowadays we depend on long-term customers. In fact, I had started small leso business after getting Sh70,000 loan from a local bank, but fire razed down my house and shop in March. Even my baptismal card and other documents were burnt. That and other problems pushed me back to the business.”
She reveals that, “Sleeping with more than 10 men for Sh50 each was a windfall because making Sh500 in a day was the equivalent of earning about Sh5000 today.”
She adds that, “It has been a long journey and I’ve slept with more than 5,000 men in more than 20 years. I’ve been in the field, even my children know it, and used to visit but when they grew up and started their families, they stopped frequenting Nairobi.”
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Posted: at 17-07-2016 09:15 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Kennycynth at 17-07-2016 09:18 AM (8 years ago) (f)
U try....ur honeypot go don wide pass river Niger
Posted: at 17-07-2016 09:18 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Since u have use the job money to race all ur children To adult,mama stop the job and depend on ur adult kids,that is how all ashawo in the all world do it ,once they get what they want,they we stop the job ok,stop or are you enjoy the job?help me ask her mr poster ;
Posted: at 17-07-2016 09:38 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
danielsony at 17-07-2016 10:07 AM (8 years ago) (m)
Yours Na small thing the other lady says she has slept with over 1000000 men, during her time she was talking on BBC. u can imagine, woman una dey try oh no be to start be the problem Na to stop. Ashawo work is so demonic.
Posted: at 17-07-2016 10:07 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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