EXCLUSIVE: Non-fiction manufacturing outfit Uncooked TV, greatest identified for titles like The Tinder Swindler and Three An identical Strangers, has set a ten-part podcast collection titled Cursed at Audible.
British-Nigerian journalist Femi Oke will current the collection, which follows the story of an historical Nigerian deity who efficiently lured trendy ladies into intercourse slavery.
Cursed is the second Audible collection 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 Seventies England.
Cursed begins in 2016 when a younger girl turns up at a brothel in Germany on a chilly December night with a French passport with out having the ability to converse a phrase of French. The official synopsis reads: After a worldwide investigation, it emerges that she is a part of a gaggle of younger ladies who had been being trafficked from Nigeria. Earlier than they left, they had been made to undergo a religious juju ritual which sure them to their trafficker. In the event that they broke the oath, a curse can be unleashed upon them and their households.
“This collection has traffickers, victims, authorities, and an historical goddess collide in a novel manner,” Oke mentioned. “Taking listeners deep into the spirit world of Nigeria whereas investigating crime has been probably the most difficult project of my life. I hope Cursed is as compelling to hearken to because it was to make.”
Deborah Dudgeon, Govt Producer at Uncooked Podcasts added: “By unimaginable entry to the Nationwide Crime Company and their worldwide companions, in addition to a few of the households affected – all of whom had been so beneficiant with their involvement – we’ve been in a position to deep dive into this extraordinary investigation, exploring how the perpetrators had been introduced down in addition to the bravery of the victims who got here ahead to show them.”
Cursed launches on September 12.