The curse of Ham as a tool of missionary propaganda: Part 3: The ‘reconversion’ of the myth in the 19th and 20th centuries

Translated from the French Original by Katy Albiston In two previous posts, we have shown how the use of Ham by the missionaries sheds light on the logic of the mechanisms underlying the promotion of their enterprise with regard to Africa. There were very few in that community who gave voice to objections to this racist reading of Genesis[i]: from the 16th century the ‘floodgates’ had been open, “permitting prejudice, never criticised, never justified, to invade the literature and deluge the...