Black Axe and The International Cult Confraternities of Nigeria

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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They began as freedom-fighting pirates, swashbuckling for African rights. But over the decades Nigeria's confraternities descended into vicious cults. Among them one group has spread across the entire world, and Law Enforcement is only now just learning how dangerous the Black Axe really is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.0	into the city, and a group of Nigerian men are drinking at a bar in Balero, a tight-knit market
1:19.6	district that's the downtown for drugs, sex and organized crime.
1:23.0	Four of the men get into an argument.
1:25.0	Three of them are gangsters laying down routes alongside Sicily's feared mafia the Kotonoster.
1:30.0	They want the fourth, 25 year old Don Emmica, to join them. He's having none of it.
1:35.0	He's always faced death threats crossing the Mediterranean from Africa.
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1:41.0	The other guys don't see it that way.
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