Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of Benin City was speaking August 9 during an evangelisation conference of the Benin City ecclesiastical province.

The cleric expressed anger that Christianity is still perceived in Africa as "the white man's God" and complained that there are priests who still turn down baptising children bearing African names.

"To become Christian, we had to pick Western names that are saints, and our local names were not allowed. It was as if no Nigerian existed in heaven before the missionaries came," referring to the time when foreign missionaries deployed to Nigeria, which gave the impression that "no Nigerian existed in heaven before the missionaries came."

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