ABSTRACT
The author have been motivated in the enormous task of writing this book mainly by him observations in the field, as he worked as a Government Tourist Officer at the Kenyan coastal region. He met Asha [pseudonym], an eleven-year-old, pure and virginal-looking street girl. She stopped him in her daily escapade to beg for money. He gave her two Kenyan pounds and then invited her for breakfast in a restaurant a block away from his office. As they took their breakfast, Asha narrated how she was pushed onto Mombasa streets and eventually into the sex trade by abject poverty. Her story was both chilling and compelling. He heard hundreds of similar stories from both underage and adult Kenyans during his six month assignment as the Secretary to Kenya's Government Task Force on coastal tourism. These factors both separately and cumulatively triggered him scholarly interest in sex trade-related research. This was the germ of Sex Tourism in Africa: Kenya's Booming Industry.
