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I was born into a religiously diverse family; my paternal family is Catholic, and my maternal family is Muslim. I was raised in both worlds. However, as a young boy, I deliberately opted to become a Catholic. I followed the Catholic faith assiduously and even decided to become a Catholic priest. I joined the missionary community of the Holy Ghost Congregation (Spiritans), Province of Nigeria, in 1992, and took temporary vows in 1994. I left in 2000. I had thought that I fully understood the path the Lord was leading me to—I was called to preach Christ to all nations, especially to Muslims and worshippers of the Indigenous Religions in Nigeria. Little did I know that my faith journey was about to begin.
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See Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 ( New York: Avon Books, 1991 ), 22.
Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,,1995), 171.
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Aihiokhai, S.A. (2015). Interreligious Friendship: A Path to Conversion for a Catholic Theologian. In: Fredericks, J.L., Tiemeier, T.S. (eds) Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate. Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472113_16
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