Abstract
The concept of “African Christianity” in reference to the form of liturgy and the practice of the Christian faith among the ethnic groups of the Black race in Central America is a totally new idea — as is the African influence from which it derives. At the present time there exists a Black characteristic which is implicitly African. This is not so in liturgy, theology and in the Christian religion. They are still determined by the traditional scheme of Moravian, Anglican and Catholic churches and even more recently by the Pentecostal churches and the sects that they create. The fact that just about five days ago I received a letter requesting me to do research on this topic in Central America makes it impossible for me to give those findings. The long hours of study and research that this subject will require is no secret to you. Nevertheless, having promised to send the work by December to the directors of this conference, I would like to share briefly some details about the situation of Christians of the Black and Miskitan races on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, a crucial place with respect to the historical turning point of the Central American experience today.