Nigeria, April 6 -- Except a man be born again.he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. - Jesus Christ.

Dateline: Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Sunday, 5 April, 1964. A preacher is delivering a message in a church. Among those he's addressing is William Folorunso Kumuyi, 23. The lad is "almost like a moralist," as he listens and watches the cleric. The preacher is unrelenting as he insists that it isn't just our actions that make us unacceptable to God. Our wrong thoughts and wrong plans and leaving Him out of our programmes, as if He doesn't exist, also displease Him. After what must have been a battle within, young Kumuyi steps forward as the preacher asks those who have so contemned God to come out. They must be born again...