Benin City exports a stream of young women to Italy

[Richard Akindele]

Other Dated Added: Tue Dec 28 2004 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community

Info current as of mid-November, 2004. According to extremely reputable sources, Benin City exports a steady stream of pretty young women to Italy to work as prostitutes. If they return with riches, they are treated as economic heroes. But if they return home empty handed, they are mocked. According to the article, these women go abroad "with eyes wide open" and are not uneducated. They take on debts of up to $45,000 because of the success of those who go before them. The women come back and recruit the younger ones to join them in Italy, and the women who go are known as Italos. Benin City is described as an "ancient walled city with unpaved roads" but the Italos have added such elements as proper houses with private wells, and four wheel drive vehicles. Whether it is possible to monger *there* in Benin City is unknown, but this is the cherry popping first post. More info needed. (Review # 10690)