Abstract:
The question of what an African ecofeminist environmental ethical view ought to look
like remains unanswered in much of philosophical writing on African environmental ethics. I
consider what an African ecofeminist environmental ethics ought to look like if values salient
in African communitarian philosophy and ubuntu are seriously considered. After considering
how African communitarian philosophy and ubuntu foster communitarian living, relational
living, harmonious living, interrelatedness and interdependence between human beings and
various aspects of nature, I reveal how African communitarian philosophy and ubuntu could
be interpreted from an ecofeminist environmental perspective. I suggest that this
underexplored ecofeminist environmental ethical view in African philosophical thinking
might be reasonably taken as an alternative to anthropocentric environmentalism. I urge
other ethical theorists on African environmentalism not to neglect this non-anthropocentric
African environmentalism that is salient in African ecofeminist environmentalism.
