EXCLUSIVE: Non-fiction manufacturing outfit Uncooked TV, finest recognized 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 historic Nigerian deity who efficiently lured trendy girls into intercourse slavery.
Cursed is the second Audible collection created and produced by Uncooked TV. The 2 corporations 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 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 had been being trafficked from Nigeria. Earlier than they left, they had been made to undergo a non secular 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 historic goddess collide in a singular method,” Oke stated. “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 take heed to because it was to make.”
Deborah Dudgeon, Govt Producer at Uncooked Podcasts added: “By way of unbelievable entry to the Nationwide Crime Company and their worldwide companions, in addition to among the households affected – all of whom had been so beneficiant with their involvement – now we have been capable of 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 reveal them.”
Cursed launches on September 12.
