Believers and Hustlers

Lagos megachurch Pastor, Nicholas Adejuwon is a very ambitious man desperate to erase a past that has scarred his mind. His beautiful wife Nkechi has reasons to secretly snoop on him following a series of indiscretions that threaten their marriage and superstardom. When Nkechi uncovers some scandalous secrets, she turns to Ifenna, a young journalist turned blogger who has a history with her husband, to make them public, changing her reality as she knew it in the process.

Believers and Hustlers is an exposé into the underbelly of Nigeria’s Pentecostal fervour and the lives of rich celebrity posterity preachers, their motivations, rivalries, pretences and fears. This bold novel tells an important story about our times – the quest for power, the fears that trigger it, the hypocrisy that sustains it, and the ways in which religion can be weaponized to shroud it all in a mystery. At its core however, it’s a story of life, of love, power, and the ironies that fate often deals us at the end of our desperate quests.

“In this page-turner, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo writes with so much mastery, lucidity and truth, it felt like he was holding up a mirror, daring the reader to look and see themselves. Believers and Hustlers, might be a bitter pill for some to swallow, but what is it they say about the truth?”

– Michael Afenfia, author of Leave My Bones in Saskatoon