IGWEBUIKE: African Journal of Arts and Humanities

The rate of deforestation in Africa is always growing in an alarming rate. Despite all the awareness and campaigns on the effects of deforestation, the problem kept on continuing on daily basis. This study aims at assessing the effects on the deforestation on the habitation of the gods in some parts of central Plateau state and southern Kaduna. The researchers in this study argued that deforestation in African soil is an intentional activity initiated by the colonialists to weaken the activities of African traditional worshippers who have high regards for the forests habitations. This the researchers claimed was for them (colonialists) to have easy access to introduce their foreign God thereby relegating the assumed powers of the African gods to the background. This research employs a historical, descriptive and analytical approach to some African existing and already destroyed shrines and how it affects the religious activities of the people of some parts of Ngas land of Plateau State and the Bajju people of southern Kaduna.

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