This chapter presents an overview of the sex-work and the ceremonies in the Nigeria. Okojie and colleagues found that the overwhelming majority' of Nigerian sex-workers repatriated home came from the Edo; 90 per cent of the Nigerian sex-workers in Italy were come from the region. The topic of juju provides a sensationalist dimension to the afro-pessimism, the notion that little good that arises from a continent riddled with the corruption and disarray. The slave trader in Britain who sold women around Europe for sex under the spell of his 'juju' witchcraft'; Juju traps terrified girls into sex slavery'. Van Dijk, from his research on Nigerian women trafficked into the Dutch sex trade, argues that sensationalized accounts of voodoo' rituals being inflicted upon the girls created a moral panic'; these sinister African practices were believed to threaten the very fabric of civil society.