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Subject: Swedish press raps on Gambian prostitutes
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G-L Cummunity,

This morning while I was reading the publication of the Daily Observer of
08/27/99, I stumbled on a very shocking and disheartening news about the
alarming rate of  prostitution among young Gambian women in Sweden.  This is
so because, they are dubbed "the new breed of whores" and to say the least
that phenomenon is far from being Gambian.  Below is the full text:

The Swedish media has recently reported that Gambian women in Sweden are
highly involved in prostitution rackets operating in Swedish cities.

According to the Swedish Daily News of August 20, "Women from The Gambia,
Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda, are in the frontline of prostitution in
Sweden".

The report described Gambian prostitutes scouring Swedish streets as " the
new breed of whores," young in their 20s and 30s and unskilled.

The Daily News quoted a Tanzanian Sociologist, Sulusi Sjo, who spent 14
months interviewing African prostitutes, as saying, "the prostitutes are
mostly divorced, but some of them are girls who have been forced onto the
streets by want."

Sjo continued, "they earn a lot of money which they take home to attract
their friends and relatives."

The Gambian prostitutes who talked to the Daily News Reporter told him that
during the day, they take care of their children and use the welfare
dependency.  "But, during the night, we wear our most beautiful dresses and
get ready for the street customers," they said.

According to the Reporter, Gambian prostitutes who are about sixty in number
are highly sophisticated, ".  They go out with fully charged mobile phones.
They take very good care of themselves.  They are very careful not to bruise
themselves and make every possible means to avoid HIV infection."

The boom in sex trade between White men and African prostitutes follows the
declaration last January by the Swedish Government that prostitution is
illegal.  The source concludes.

On a personal note, I must admit that this story immediately brought back to
memory some of the "fanatical" reasons (atleast that is how most of us view
them), why our elders were/are always skeptical about sending girls/women
abroad especially, the ones who are unlettered, unmarried and unskilled.
Simple as this reasoning may sound, the above story if accurate and let me
hasten to say that at this point, I have no reason to doubt it until
otherwise, proven wrong. Their (elders) argument holds water and has been
given a resounding vindication.  So I urge that our sisters together with us
take a critical look at ourselves and where we come from and what we
subscribe to with regards to our religions and cultures to stay away/desist
from such ungodly trade.

Peace,
OB


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