Abstract
This article aims to describe the mechanisms by which Christianity was inserted in Angola, first represented by Catholicism linked to Portuguese colonization and later by Protestantism, whose insertion was facilitated by the political and economic opening of the Berlin conference from 1884 to 1885 , through European and American missions and missionaries, become co-participants through the religious bias of the European colonial expansionist movement in the African continent. It also intends to analyze the impact of European cultural and religious imposition on the native linguistic, cultural and religious values that are crucial to the maintenance, preservation and continuity, based on the African ancestral tradition, whose effects are still visible today. This will be a bibliographical research with an anthropological and historical description of the facts collected.
