About 9 per cent of Nicaragua 's population is black or afronicaragÃ 1\/4 ense and they are concentrated in the country 's eastern coast , and were brought mostly from Jamaica and Haiti when the region was a British protectorate . About 9 % of Nicaragua 's population is black , or Afro-Nicarag Ã 1\/4 ense , and mainly reside on the country 's sparsely populated Caribbean or Atlantic coast . The black population is mostly of West Indian ( Antillean ) origin , the descendants of indentured laborers brought mostly from Jamaica when the region was a British protectorate .