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ABSTRACT

The study offers an anthropological perspective on aspects of afroecology of traditional African societies, using the Yoruba as a case study. Data indicate that the world is facing immense ecological crises and that unbridled human activities have aggravated environmental destruction to a dangerous scale. However, not much study has focused on afroecology and its dimensions of ecospirituality, ecophilosophy and ecotheology. This study offers traditional African approach to ecological sustenance. Methodologically, the study is based on ethnographic fieldwork among traditional communities of the Yoruba, which have maintained critical aspects of autochthonous culture. Findings show that contemporary African societies are bedevilled by monumental ecological problems and as a result have lost large swath of their environment to the assaults of foreign imposed technologies and philosophies. The problem is compounded by westernization, globalization, sinocism (Chinese influence) and influence of foreign religion which imposed consumerist philosophy on the people. This study provides scholarly field-sourced approach to ameliorating the ecological crises that menace the world. The study is primed for its scholarship on the richness of the Yoruba in their response to the environment and its sustenance.