, telling them that the Lord is good; inviting them to come and taste for themselves [...]'. Wright, who was of Egba Alake origin and born in Oba, recorded how he 'was born a Heathen in a Heathen Land, and was trained up in my youth to the fashion and customs of that heathenish country [...]'. This reflected a standard narrative convention in which he traced his spiritual path from being a 'heathen' to his acceptance of a new life of Christianity (Curtin, 1967, p. 8, pp. 193-194, pp. 317-333).