Journey to Work

Transnational Prostitution in Colonial British West Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID12363008
AuthorsSaheed Aderinto (Western Carolina University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume24
Issue1
Pages99-124
Publication date2014-12-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the History of Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1043-4070 • E-ISSN: 1535-3605
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7560/jhs24105
OpenAlexW1544476831
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

I was brought here from Nigeria by the accused [Bassey Assor] about three years ago. . . . I was brought to Sekondi and after a few weeks taken to Prestea. At Prestea a whiteman came and made some arrangement with [the] accused and I was then told to go into a room with the whiteman. I objected but was forced into the room by the accused and the man had connexion [sic] with me which resulted in my vagina bleeding profusely. I was in pain and ill for some time afterwards. On recovery I was taken to another whiteman but ran away from him and returned to the accused. The accused beat me and made me return to the man but I again left. After this I was taken to Konongo, Tarkwa and Bibiani. At each of these places the accused sent me to different men who had connexion with me. The men paid the accused and sometimes gave me chop [food] money. After leaving Bibiani I and the accused returned to Sekondi where we lived together in one room with a partition down the centre. Every evening I had to sit at the door and men would come to accuse [sic] and ask for me. If I refused to go with a man the accused would beat me

Colonialism · Evening · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Medicine · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria

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