Background: Given the improved knowledge of colonic carcinoma worldwide, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are perhaps distinct clinico-pathological, and probably molecular biological, differences between the high-incidence colorectal carcinoma (e.g. in Caucasians) and low-incidence disease (e.g. among black Africans). Whereas there are putative explanations, the bases for the observed differences have however not been well explored. An enduring impediment to this is the subsisting dearth of literature on the pathological characteristics of the disease as it is found among indigenous Africans. Our purpose for carrying out the study was to document the detailed pathological characteristics of the disease amongst our patients. Method: We retrospectively reviewed all cases of colorectal carcinomas seen in the Department of Histopathology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos from January 2001 to December 2010 for site of the lesion in each case, gross appearances of the tumour, the histological type and depth of invasion of the wall of the bowel. Staging was done using the Astler-Coller scheme. The presence or absence of any other co-existing pathological changes in the adjoining mucosa was also noted.