The narrative of Ghana's history remains incomplete without acknowledging the coexistence of Christianity and African traditional religion, both sharing common approaches in appeasing a Supreme Being through thanksgiving and divine petitions.

While Christians worship God through Jesus Christ, adherents of African traditional religion revere the Supreme Being through lesser gods and ancestral veneration.

However, in recent times, leaders of the African Traditional Religion have expressed concerns about Christianity potentially eroding their identity, branding it as fetish.

Chief Priest of Osu, Wor-Lumor Nuumo Noi Sekanku Kpenuku II, revealed in a People & Places interview that the controversy traces back to British influence.

He explained that, in an attempt to diminish Ghana's monarchy, the British labeled the chairs of Ghanaian chiefs as 'stools,' contrasting with the term 'thrones' for their own monarchs.

“Let me enlighten you on something. When you go to England, the Queen is sitting on a chair they call the throne; you go to the Netherlands the same. You go to all these European countries where we have monarchs, they are sitting on thrones. Why is it that our monarchs sit on stools? Have you ever found the dictionary meaning of stool? When you get into the medical laboratories, stool means…the excreta that we leave in the gents. Oxford Dictionary, stool means something that you put your feet on.”

“So you see, by this naming of our thrones, they have degraded our chiefs. The British, the colonial masters they degraded our chiefs. But they call their chairs thrones and they call ours stools. And they call the chair of God, throne. So they are gods to us, and they are not gods to us.”

Expressing disappointment, he highlighted the negative connotation of the word 'stool' in medical laboratories, referring to excreta.

He argued that the British, considering themselves colonial masters, equated their monarchy to God, positioning themselves as 'gods.'

Wor-Lumor Nuumo Noi Sekanku Kpenuku II emphasized that the British's nomenclature degraded Ghanaian chiefs, portraying them as inferior.

“No, we are holier than them. They came to kill and steal our minerals and goods, stole our human resources, and took our people as slaves. So we are cleaner than them,” he stated.

He underscored the need for the public to recognize that Christianity, introduced by the British, is not as 'holy' as claimed. According to him, the traditional religion, as the first on earth, holds a holier status than Christianity.