African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy.The issue of the environment is still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies, academics and specifically, philosophers in the sub-Saharan Africa.The entrenched traditional world-views which give a place of privilege to one thing over the other, as for example men over women, is the same attitude that privileges humans over the environment.This culturally embedded orientation makes it difficult for stake holders in Africa to identify and confront the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the environment.In a continent where deep-rooted cultural and religious practices, as well as widespread ignorance, determine human conduct towards the environment, it becomes difficult to curtail much less overcome the threats to our environment.It shows that to a large extent, the African cultural privileging of men over women and of humans o