Towards a Yoruba conception of ecojustice

Eco-justice is primarily concerned with the goals of mitigating environmental harm and sustaining the environment and its components on the basis of an inclusive notion of justice that advances that no ecosystem units (human and nonhuman lifeforms) are unduly engaged for destruction or massive exhaustion. It follows that the advancement of eco-justice is also underscored by the dynamics of interaction/relations among the ecosystem units within the environment. In light of this, the complexity of human, flora, and fauna relations is implicated. Within the philosophical parlance, this point of relations between human and nonhuman lifeforms has been subjected to ethical debates, in terms of anthropocentric, non-anthropocentric, post-anthropocentric, and animist analyses, while suggestive means of advancing eco-justice from the context of indigenous knowledge systems seem ongoing. With specific emphasis on indigenous Yoruba thought, this discourse attempts to interrogate the extent to which eco-justice is advanc