Oct 14, 2014 · Juju "magic" may seem strange, mythical and other-worldly but it is a problem that is all too real when it comes to the sex trafficking of women from Nigeria. The form of witchcraft was thrown...

Sep 4, 2017 · Traditional West African ‘healers’ and Sicilian psychiatrists are struggling to help free Nigerian women forced into prostitution.

It is most commonly used for treating both physical and spiritual ailments. For example, when used with positive intentions, it can be used for healing insect and animal bites as well as counteracting and neutralizing curses. Juju is sometimes used to …

Apr 17, 2018 · On March 9, the Oba convened a meeting of some 500 juju priests and practitioners at his palace to cast a curse of his own. To underscore the gravity of his pronouncement, the Oba brought out a...

Nov 22, 2023 · Based on repeated in-depth interviews with young Nigerian women and teenager teenage victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, this article discusses how juju is used by the trafficking networks to keep their victims exploited, enslaved and indebted.

Sep 9, 2017 · The juju curse stories, both real or imagined, are useful devices for these desperate, psychologically battered and traumatised trafficked women in negotiating a better treatment for themselves on arrival in Europe.

A week after her March visit, the Oba summoned the kingdom's juju priests to a ceremony at his palace and dismissed the curses they place on trafficking victims — and cast a fresh curse on anyone who aided illegal migration within his domain.

Eastern European gangs use violence to coerce the women they transport, but the "madams" at the top of the Nigerian trafficking chain don't need muscle – they have juju on their side.

Mar 24, 2018 · Nigerian sex traffickers threaten girls with a ritual curse to make them obedient as they send them to Europe. But now priests are turning the curse back on them.

Sep 18, 2018 · When lesions broke out all over Florence’s face, she was convinced that it was because she had crossed a juju curse, a form of black magic, cast on her before she left Nigeria for Russia. For years, Nigerian women living in poverty have migrated to Europe with the promise of lucrative jobs.