Osas e le donne di Benin City

A wave of violence hit the city of Palermo between 2011 and 2014: three Nigerian girls, in their early twenties, were killed within a short time of each other and their bodies were found among rubbish bins. One is charred.

Public opinion will say that they were just 'prostitutes', but the woman who tells us this story, looking us straight in the eyes, reminds us that Loveth, Favour and Bose were human beings.

Osas Egbon, 42 years old, is the president of the first Italian association against the exploitation of prostitution, set up in the aftermath of these murders and formed entirely by Nigerian women, former victims of trafficking. They are the 'Women of Benin City', named after the city from which they all come. For young Nigerian women in search of freedom, Osas becomes a point of reference.

She speaks their language but, above all, she has experienced first-hand what prostitution and violence mean.

In a direct interview, she recounts us how she managed to rebel. A story that starts in the present and proceeds to the past, to the roots of her courage, to her innermost and deepest motivations that make her a heroine pervaded by a precise need of justice and legality.

Osas, a Nigerian woman, has been living in Italy for over 20 years. Her name means "sent by God" and on the streets of Palermo she understood what her prophetess had predicted: helping other women to be free from the slavery of trafficking for sexual purposes. A market of violence that can lead to death. In Osas's gaze and words, we find the resistance and transformation of a woman who rose from being oppressed to become the founder of the association Women of Benin City, the first association in Italy to combat prostitution, entirely formed by former victims of trafficking

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