Some people, who know me as Chris Williams or Christopher Williams, often wonder why a “full-blooded African” has what they consider as “foreign names”. But they are not all that “foreign” indeed. I was given the Christian name “Christopher’ because I was born on or close to the “Christ the King Sunday”, the last Sunday of the Catholic liturgical year. “Williams”, on the other hand, is a common West African family name. It is so common that my mother, a Nigerian woman, who was “Miss Williams,” met my dad, who was also a Williams, but from the then Gold Coast, now known “Ghana”.