Your subscription is almost coming to an end. Your premium access has ended, but the best of Nation. Africa is still within reach. Renew now to unlock exclusive stories and in-depth features. Subscribe for a month to get full access. The scenery in Zanzibar is great, clean beaches, white, tiny sandy islands, amazing wildlife in both the sea and land, its rich history, and all other fascinating caves and places are always the best attraction to foreign visitors, especially Westerners.
But some end up in love relationships, get emotionally entangled, get married, and produce children. Others are not so lucky, they are stuck in sex tourism for years on end.
Susan from Arusha, Tanzania, and Liam, a tourist from the Netherlands, met and fell in love, and started a love relationship in Zanzibar. The two did get married in the Netherlands, bore their only son, Julian, and lived happily until Liam travelled to Ethiopia for work and met another African lady with similar magic and juice.
Susan moved back to Tanzania and went back to her usual business as it was hard to get a job, and she was not used to hustling. She said she knows a couple of mainland women who like foreign tourists that come to Zanzibar mostly during the high season for sexcapade.
But old ones like Susan stay in rented houses on interior streets and host a few others. I was curious. Happy shared her story that a friend of hers introduced her to the business back in Back home, she lives with her grandmother and a young brother who all depend on her to bring bread home. They are from Singida, but Happy moved to Dar es Salaam for a shot at a better life and after a few bartending gigs in Sinza streets, she met a friend called Neema who shared with her another job she does in Zanzibar.
