How TB Joshua overcame odds to establish a spiritual empire far beyond Nigeria

By Tinashe Chimbidzikai, Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Josiah Taru, Lecturer, Great Zimbabwe University

TB Joshua, the popular Nigerian charismatic preacher and televangelist, who has died at the age of 57, left a conflicting legacy. The co-founder of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations megachurch was hailed by his ardent followers as a “true man of God” and a philanthropist who

fed the poor, gave electricity, educational scholarships, emergency relief, employed…

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