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Meet Kenya’s oldest ‘born-again ashawo’

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Her name is Rosemary John, she is 64 years old.

Born and partly raised in Tanzania, Rosemary Johns, a mother of eight, went to Nairobi, Kenya, where the hard life forced her into commercial sex in 1984. She got married at 16, but after some time in marriage, her husband started neglecting her after she gave birth to five children.

Rosemary figures that she could serve up to 40 men on a good day and between 5 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,” says the Nairobian.

She said: “It has been a long journey and I’ve slept with more than 5,000 men in more than 20 years.”

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