CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CULTURE

Festus Chimezie Ajeli

Abstract


Although, climate change is a global phenomenon with impacts affecting the world over, these impacts are more deeply felt in developing countries, especially those in the continent of Africa. Climate change has caused the rise in poverty level, drought, flood and famine, with developing countries bearing the brunt of these impacts. There have been cases of droughts in the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa and the Sahel areas of Africa. To be sure, climate change has affected the socio-economic, cultural, health and political life of Africans in all ramifications. This paper seeks to critically evaluate the impacts of climate change on the African Religious and Culture with special emphasis on Nigeria.

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