Sanvee-kondji

”It’s a question of money,” said one of the many truck drivers milling about the main border crossing between Benin and Togo. ”Most of the girls are simply after money, and if I decide it’ll be without a condom, then it’ll be without a condom.” As soon as school ends each day, teenage girls in this Togolese border town head for the border post to sell sweets, bread and sometimes more, to the 1 000-odd truckers and travellers who pass through each day.