Patricia Ngwena

Eco-theology from an African Perspective Patricia Ngwena

The book seeks to highlight the African ecological episteme applying an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach in addressing the contemporary ecological ecocide. The author attempts to unify African Indigenous Knowledge lifeworlds and African Christianity epistemologies which bears ecological overtones. The African genealogy and Christology bring to the fore the fact that knowledge production cannot be sustained and obtained from one source only - the Eurocentric epistemology. African people(s) indigenous ecological wisdom knowledge systems is more than the binary of western ecological knowledge, but a system practised over time with positive results by communities across sub-Saharan Africa. There are numerous communities that are ecologically sensitive in practice based on the concept of God, humanity and the natural/wild world. The relations are inextricably intertwined. It is vital to develop an episteme including an African perspective when addressing the ecological crisis.