Abstract:
his review was set in the context of African spirituality and ecology. Specifically, the
review addressed issues of African spirituality and the environment from a Kenyan context.
Through analyses on existing literature, we examined African worldviews, determined how
African spirituality was communicated through the environment, evaluated African ways of
regulating the use of the environment, and explored challenges facing African spirituality and
ecology today. Results show that African spirituality has been enhanced through the environment
where humanity worshipped and venerated everything under the earth, on earth, between the
earth and heavens and in the heavens above. Consequently, various methods to restrict the
utilization of certain natural resources are employed as a way of conserving the environment.
Additional findings demonstrate that African spirituality and ecology are currently facing a
number of challenges, hence a major challenge of sustainability of African spirituality in regard
to environment. From a spiritual point of view, it is therefore recommended that environmental
diversity should be conserved through sustainable development where every person from
grassroots level is involved in protecting and maintaining God‘s creation. We conclude that
African knowledge and belief systems on environmental sustainability could be revitalized and
used in environmental conservation.
