EXCLUSIVE: Non-fiction manufacturing outfit Raw TV, greatest identified for titles like The Tinder Swindler and Three An identical Strangers, has set a ten-part podcast sequence titled Cursed at Audible.
British-Nigerian journalist Femi Oke will current the sequence, which follows the story of an historic Nigerian deity who efficiently lured fashionable girls into intercourse slavery.
Cursed is the second Audible sequence created and produced by Uncooked TV. The 2 firms beforehand collaborated on The Second Sufferer, the story of a Black child who’s adopted right into a white household in rural Nineteen Seventies England.
Cursed begins in 2016 when a younger lady turns up at a brothel in Germany on a chilly December night with a French passport with out with the ability to communicate a phrase of French. The official synopsis reads: After a worldwide investigation, it emerges that she is a part of a bunch of younger girls who have been being trafficked from Nigeria. Earlier than they left, they have been made to undergo a religious juju ritual which sure them to their trafficker. In the event that they broke the oath, a curse could be unleashed upon them and their households.
“This sequence has traffickers, victims, authorities, and an historic goddess collide in a novel means,” Oke stated. “Taking listeners deep into the spirit world of Nigeria whereas investigating crime has been essentially the most difficult project of my life. I hope Cursed is as compelling to hearken to because it was to make.”
Deborah Dudgeon, Government Producer at Uncooked Podcasts added: “By means of unimaginable entry to the Nationwide Crime Company and their worldwide companions, in addition to a few of the households affected – all of whom have been so beneficiant with their involvement – now we have been in a position to deep dive into this extraordinary investigation, exploring how the perpetrators have been introduced down in addition to the bravery of the victims who got here ahead to show them.”
Cursed launches on September 12.
