Description

The purpose of this book is to capture an insiders’ view on sex work in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. While most of the case stories focus on female sex-workers, it also contains stories of promiscuous sex e.g. pre-marital multiple sexual partnerships and extra-marital affairs, university students, civil servants, older women, and married partners. Nonetheless, the reader will readily and pleasantly learn more about the sex-worker’s position than is known to the average non-reader. If my labors induce the concerned reader to improve the appalling sex-workers life circumstances, I trust, s/he will become a solution seeker and master of much more gender activist than the ordinary citizen. This book is indeed a legacy which I bequeath to everyone concerned to help sex-workers stop working out their own death.

About the Author

Dr. Messeret Assefa holds a B.Ed from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, M.A (Gold Medalist) and PhD from Punjab University, India, IPGD from IIEP UNESCO, Paris and PGD Germany, (Pedagogy and planning), PGDT (Two Diplomas, Teaching License for Higher Education) from Addis Ababa University, PGD (Marketing and Sales Management) from Central management Institute of Umbala, India, Certificate of Ethnographic study from Uppingham Seminaries, UK and ANPHEA Ethiopia. He also earned a Certificate for HIV/AIDS and gender issues Application of Behavioral Change and Communication Strategies. Management Consultancy certificate from Ethiopia Management Institute. He was awarded the prestigious Man of the Year, 2000. He has published Articles in the area of Adolescence Psychology and Gender; Teaching Material on Curriculum Studies and Articles on the Problem and Issues that Surrounding Secondary Schools. He published two short Snatched Case Studies in a book entitled ‘Everyday Literacies in Africa’ and ‘Psychology Book Review’.