View from Africa illustration by Kate Copeland.

In January a groundbreaking investigation by BBC Africa Eye and openDemocracy unearthed a series of unsettling revelations of widespread abuse endured by members of the megachurch run by renowned Nigerian televangelist, the late TB Joshua.1

This wasn’t the first time concerns had been raised about the former leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) who died in June 2021.