Horrible life of Nigerian girls in Europe

This article is a must read, it tells of the horrible life of Nigerian girls in Europe.

By Flore-Murard Yovanovitch

Who among us has not seen? The roadside, with bras and stiletto heels. But behind these bodies, those who know their stories? Not free, but forced labor, prostitution, but is not chosen. “Prostitution”, not prostitutes; Nigerian deceived, enslaved, thrown on the sidewalks. Isoke Aikpitanyi, a former victim of trafficking and co-author of “The Girl in Benin City,” has created a national survey on the reality of Nigerian girls underwater: debts, traffickers and mafia networks that make possible today than slavery in Italy. From eyewitness accounts to create this beautiful book denouncing 500 true stories. On the trafficking of African women in Italy (Ediesse), with contributions from Roberto Saviano, Michael Nyman and musicians David McAlmont, former customers who now fight trafficking in the Association of Isoke.

In Benin City, hell began with the TV , a can of worms that propagate the myth of paradise European colonizing the African imagination. Poor girls, with families dependent on them, you are fooled by the promise of easy money, when they are not sold directly from fathers and relatives to Italos and bad Nigerian. If some of them “know”, the vast majority believes instead that Italy will find a real job. By contracting a debt between 40 and 80 thousand euros with the traffickers, they land in our town after traveling by desert, sea or air. Upon arrival, the wait for “Maman” , a misleading name to indicate the real pimp women: women who exploit the body of other women. Their passports confiscated and thrown in the street. The logic of overwhelming debt, the ramifications of the extended control of “slaves” of communities and associations Nigerian el’omertà do the rest. Even the churches “black” are complicit! When no direct gang leaders, pastors are corrupt, through the manipulation of traditions and voodoo , keep those girls subjugated. Threats, reprisals and terrible punishment, often fatal, are the ultimate deterrent. Nigerian women are terrified to rebel.

You can not escape the market. To repay their terrible debt, and growing, they are forced to undergo at least 3000 sexual performance (a single performance standard car costs 25 euros). In a daily life because of violence and insults like “nigger”, “now I get settled,” “That’ll teach ‘… Italian decent, real rapists pay. The body of the weak woman, black and otherwise, the outburst of all diseases and sexual deviancy, the brutal combination of sexism and racism. And off beat, torture, tortures, the simple reading of those pages is monstrous.

Rape is a constant, in the “trade”: there is a girl who has suffered not one, but the rapes (including group) unreported and unpunished. As summarized Isoke, with a paradox: “Every African is raped saved an Italian.” Their skin shows bruises and cuts, signs of belt and cigarette burns, said perforated uteruses craft and abortions (50% of them had an abortion at least once at home), because in the absence of treatment, for fear of repatriation, the emergency room only if we end up half dead. Injuries underground, underwater.

But the deeper are the scars of the mind. As Angela says, “we end up getting sick in the head.” And even those who manage to leave then have great difficulty in returning to live their sexuality as pleasure and play, in stable relationships. The devastation is added to the effects of childhood sexual mutilation and drama, which often occurs, they had to abandon their babies in Nigeria or in Italy.
It takes courage, time, and dare to challenge the racketeering complaint. So are stories of real rebellion. How to Isoke, reduced in a coma for a punitive expedition. Or Erabor to that, he denounced his captors, was massacred, literally “scalp”. Other, simply because he said no, we have brought to the skin: their bodies abandoned in the suburbs and landfills. Every year dozens of women (200 in the last two years) disappear, but they are not even a clandestine black spot on the front pages of newspapers.

Yet, more and more girls who, thanks to Isoke in his book and the Association victims and former victims of trafficking are ways out. There is a growing perception that the use of rituals voodoo mafia is a lie, that maman are criminals and traffickers to be sent to jail, and that, with complaints and a path to membership in homes, we can finally deliver. Coming to conquer and defend those “rights that the Italians do not want to defend,” Saviano writes.

The ex-slaves, immigrants, are now active players, they know the solutions to their problems and can offer real support to victims, help at times most effective of Italian associations and social services, which might allow the release of hiding, but not by the mechanisms of trafficking. Meanwhile, a real alternative is the work of self-awareness and awareness of customers, key link in the chain of consumption / exploitation, which could lead to a halving of the victims suffered, that in Italy today are about at least 20,000 and younger and younger ages. That men read this book. What to read it all.