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ABSTRACT

The desacralisation of nature entrenched by the scientific enterprise, and the self-alienating forces of modernity have led to the destruction of nature, and the endangerment of the distinctiveness in African fauna, and animal population. These radical changes in African ecology and the harsh economic realities on the African continent have profoundly impacted the African ecological crisis which has further led to the terrifying and dehumanizing conditions of the African communities. Similarly, the ill-thought policies of government in their quest to modernize Africa, and to mimetically turn them into “civilized colonies of western democratic ethos” have exacerbated further the present ecological crisis of the African continent. Unfortunately, this civilizing agenda merely mimicked modernity and continually poses a serious threat to the ecological distinctiveness of the African continent. Engaging this problem of desacralisation, the paper adopts an ethno-philosophical methodology as a tool of intellectual enquiry with particular interests on the construct and appropriation of ecology in traditional African religious thoughts. Through this investigation, the paper advocates for the critical adoption of the resacralisation paradigm in context of the many ecological challenges of modern Africa.