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 sequence titled Cursed at Audible.
British-Nigerian journalist Femi Oke will current the sequence, which follows the story of an historical Nigerian deity who efficiently lured trendy ladies 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 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 ladies who had been being trafficked from Nigeria. Earlier than they left, they had been made to undergo a non secular juju ritual which certain 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 historical goddess collide in a novel approach,” 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, Government Producer at Uncooked Podcasts added: “Via unbelievable entry to the Nationwide Crime Company and their worldwide companions, in addition to a number of the households affected – all of whom had been so beneficiant with their involvement – we now 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 show them.”
Cursed launches on September 12.
