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ABSTRACT

The environments in Euro-American and African literatures are as vast and diverse as the entire ecosphere itself. The serene environment that pervaded Euro-American and African literatures during the era where Wordsworth romanticized about the enjoyable murmuring of the brooks and woods in "Nutting" while Okara recalled with deep sense of nostalgia its beauty, unruffled and bustling-animation of lush-green, natural and rustic nature, devoid of Western or Eastern intrusions and devastating effects of civilization. This essay decries the desecration and devaluation of the natural environment in its present state, occasioned by man-made ecological disasters such as deforestation, air and water pollutions to mention a few, by reminiscing on the aesthetics and glory of the ecosystem that elude us today by examining the selected poems as a window through which ecocriticism will be appreciated. The paper does not assume the position of a be-it-all prescriptive narratology, rather it envisions a continuous examination of degradations as an ongoing phenomenon that demand literary interrogations. The paper is therefore, rendered in a realist mode of interrogation of human and environmental interactions on ecological criticism in appreciation of the huge effects of the ecocide on the Environments in Euro-America and Africa by deploying the "Ethics of the future" and "Deep ecology" as strands of Ecocriticism that demand a reconsideration of futuristic effects that millions of people yet unborn and the ecosystems will suffer consequent upon our mismanagement and destruction of the ecosphere.