DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2017.v05i06.003

Pages: 540-549

This paper examines the role of Christian churches in the campaign against leprosy in Anglophone Cameroon. The study uses the Manyemen Leprosarium as a case study, showing that apart from churches’ involvement in the prevention of the disease, they encouraged early case detection, case holding in settlements and consequently, the curing and rehabilitation of many lepers. It argues that the Basel Mission and the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon helped not only in significantly reducing leprosy prevalence in Anglophone Cameroon, but rehabilitated sufferers who were disabled by the disease.