What is it about?
Our search for solutions to the current environmental crises requires all efforts and resources to address the situation. Among these are the experiences and values that have guided Indigenous societies worldwide. This essay looks at the Yoruba's understanding of their environment and how the various aspects guided their lives before they embraced some modern values that now trouble us. It then suggests how they can recover some of this past for their well-being and as their contribution to our collective search for environmental healing.
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Why is it important?
This essay is important because it attempts to involve everyone in the solution to our environmental problems, whether or not they have been to school.
Perspectives
I expect this essay to enlighten readers about how a premodern, indigenous society like the Yoruba recognizes the value of the environment beyond the materials we harvest and mine from it. More than that, our total well-being (moral, social, and spiritual) is tied to it.
Kehinde Olabimtan
St. Stephen's College, University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: The Yoruba and Their Ecological Environment, Worldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology, March 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02901004.
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