RETHINKING TRADITIONAL EDIFICATION AND THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF THE AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT

This chapter argues that the African indigenous ecospirituality is largely a form of ethnocentric anthroposophy which evinces a consciousness about the relationship linking all beings in the ontological order. The traditional African society raised questions through the centuries on how humans ought to live in the society to foster a sustainable ecological community. As unsophisticated as the African society may seem there were attempts to avert some perceived ecocatastrophe in the community to keep harmony between the individual entities and the cosmic totality.

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