| Sumario: | From its beginning in the 1960s to the present, Black Studies has developed as an academic discipline attempting to dismantle the cultural hegemony of the existing order and to motivate Black political resistance. Throughout this period, Black Studies advocates have consistently looked to African culture as a source of pride, enlightenment, and inspiration. However, they have overlooked the value of Christianity as a anti-colonial ideology created and employed by Africans in their struggle against European imperialism. I address this omission by examining Kwame Nkrumah's and the Convention People's Party's use of the Judeo/Christian faith as an anti-colonial philosophy between 1948 and 1966. I present this study as a single example of how Africans have used Christianity effectively as a libratory ideology against European colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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