Because their religion defines who they are, to change religions, for an African, means to give up their identity and the support and security that is embodied in it. That is why missionaries of other religions find it so difficult to make converts. To whole-heartedly accept a new religion means ceasing to be African, and in the words of Mbiti above, ‘amounts to a self-excommunication from the entire life of society.’ Because of the social cost of accepting a new religion to the individual African,