What can we learn from speaking with women convicted of trafficking? Engaging with madams is not only a vital endeavour to rebalance the victim-centred narrative that dominates our understanding of trafficking; it also reveals the multiple ways in which Nigerian women are immobilised by racial and sex-gendered borders. These constraints affect not only their social and geographical mobility but also shape the biographical scripts available to them. This chapter reflects on the value of listening to Nigerian sponsors, whose voices enable alternative understandings of trafficking to emerge—ones that challenge Manichean dyads between ruthless traffickers and naïve victims, coercion and freedom, exploitation and agency. Madams’ narratives serve as a starting point for challenging the foundations of the global colour line and the broader systems of social inequality—systems that should be understood not only in terms of material resources, but also in terms of the power to own and articulate one’s story.