The Nigeria’s Disgraced Televangelist TB Joshua
FOR THE RECORD:
Before his death in 2021 at the age of 57, TB Joshua was one of Africa’s most influential televangelists.
The Christian preacher attracted followers from all over the world by claiming to perform miracles, like curing blindness and HIV.
However, an investigation by the BBC has uncovered more than a decade of allegations of rape and torture by him inside his compound in Lagos.
In an even deadlier case the following year, one of Joshua’s churches collapsed in Lagos, killing at least 116 people.
The preacher never faced charges, despite a coroner in a Lagos court saying that “the church was culpable because of criminal negligence”.
Although thousands packed his churches, Joshua always struggled to be accepted by his peers.
Ostracised by both the Christian Association of Nigeria (Can) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), he was described as an “impostor” who belonged to a group of “occults” that had infiltrated Christianity.
“He was rough. He was crude. His methods were unorthodox,” Abimbola Adelakun, assistant professor in the African Studies Department at the University of Texas, told the BBC in 2021.
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