This article aims to show how Christianity and the Churches of Africa continue to be victims of forms of colonialism that have prevented them from affirming themselves as the true incarnation of the Gospel. Continuing to bear the heavy burden of their history, the African churches face the always difficult challenge of fidelity to the Gospel and to the peoples and cultures of Africa. Only stemming from this will it be possible to speak of a true African Christian ethic, in the same way as we have spoken for centuries of a Christian ethic stemming from Mediterranean Europe.O artigo visa mostrar como o cristianismo e as Igrejas de África continuam a ser vítimas de formas de colonialismo que as têm impedido de se afirmar como verdadeira encarn...