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During international speaking engagements, Nigerian-born writer and clergyman Bekeh Ukelina Utietiang realized that a whole generation of Africans is losing the sense of what it means to be African, while Westerners remain ignorant of who an African really is. The essays in this book are Utietiang's response to this dilemma. He covers topics ranging from Muslim-Christian relations in Nigeria to the importance of teaching indigenous languages to the failure of democracy in African culture. He gives us an insider's view of Africa and its people, and in each essay, we learn a little more about the warmth, spirituality, and sense of community of a continent too often dismissed as “ Third World.” But most important, he makes a strong case for the use of traditional African culture – African languages, African religious customs, African government systems – in rebuilding an Africa that is true to itself.
- From Africa Reads Books

“This book might be said to be a simplification of the whole problem concerning the controversy surrounding the African man, thereby making it the first of its kind aimed at conscientizing Africans both educated and uneducated, rich and poor, Africans in Diaspora and Africans at home about the dangers of following the European conceptualization of Africa and Africans as a paradigm in so far as it remains a cog in the wheel of the development of Africa. In the spirit of Pan-Africanism, it advocates the unity of Africa and calls for a realignment of forces to emancipate or mentality and free it from the burdens of the past.”
- Jacob Ayantayo, Ph. D.

What is My Faith? A Biblical and Traditional Presentation of the Catholic Faith © 1999

“… I have found between the pages of this little book in your hands, ‘What Is My Faith’, a vintage of inestimable value – what the Bible would call ‘a pearl of great Value’ … Bekeh Ukelina Utietiang has done an awesome job in his treatment of these important tenets of our Catholic faith I recommend his book unreservedly to non-Catholics. It is a must for every serious Catholic!”
- Rev. Nicholas Obi, Ph. D

“The sojourn of the Church in our land since its inception from the time of the White Missionaries has been exposed to those, who take the kingdom by violence; this is altogether a fresh beginning from Bekeh, whereby the joy of discovery can triumph in our hearts. As these issues burn down the lane in the life of the Church in Africa, not a few will pause to ask: ‘was not our hearts aflame as he opened our eyes for the sense of the scriptures.’ …Thus in view of this noble challenge, which the author achieves with relish, is the perusal of this miniature catechism a precious gem.”

- Rev. Reginald Nnamdi, Ph.D, Philosophy, Ph.D, Theology.