I admire a lot this great Prof..he's pretty smart. Why are we so obsessed by western denomination? remember we are Africans, just think of Indians, why they don't cling to western beliefs? Simply ask Africans who happened to visit Europe and live there for sometime. You'll get to know how those guys out there treat religion be Christianity, muslim and the rest. I think you'll be amazed by asking a lot of questions like, why are we so radical in these inherited faiths while those who brought them to us don't even bother?
There's a friend of mine residing in Norway one day he was narrating to me that when you go to church there even once you won't dare to do it again if you are spiritualy alive because you'll be totally disappointed. There in church on sundays worshipers are served with chocolates, drinks, talking nice and enthiustiatic storries and so forth. Pastors are not allowed to scare people that if they offend once dead will be sent to hell and punished. It's a criminal offence for a reverend to speak that in public. In simple words people there has meagre belief on God because they've got money and everything which they don't see any need of praying for help from God like how the Africans do due to poverty. They says they work hard and get money from their own toil, so they don't see any help from God.
Now these people of the very nature comes to us and behaving differently from what they do back in Europe. You know we need to be curious sometimes and we'll get to know many things not known to us. One might see the Prof as crazy if do not think big to understand what's it all about.