Igbo eschatology and environmentalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Uzochukwu Ufearoh
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethnic Nationality

The present work sets out to examine the intersection between Igbo eschatology and environmentalism. It seeks to determine how the tenets of Igbo eschatology impact on environmental conservation. The approach is conversational. Given that the work centers on a particular cultural area, an ethnic nationality in West Africa with unique cultural symbols, the paper also employs the tool of hermeneutics. It is discovered that the Igbo eschatology is characteristically this-worldly, cyclic and perceives human existence as continuous given the possibility of reincarnation. Accordingly, it impacts a sense of permanence or semi-immortality on the evanescent earthly existence thus rendering the optimism or motivation which environmentalism, a futuristic endeavor, demands. This is unlike an otherworldly, linear and terminal eschatology which forecloses the possibility of continuous existence and demotivates for the care of the environment. Secondly, given the animistic and this-worldly orientation, the symbolic presence of the eschata (new realities) such as the ancestors and spirits in the mundane world elevates the status and compels respect and care for nature or the environment. The paper therefore submits that the Igbo eschatology is pro-environmentalism.

PENCATATAN PERKAWINAN SEBAGAI REKONSEPTUALISASI SYSTEM SAKSI PERKAWINAN BERBASIS MASLAHAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Mohsi Mohsi
Keyword(s):  
Birth Certificate ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legal Legitimacy ◽  
The Subject

Marriage registration is often the subject of discussion among academics in the aspect of legal legitimacy. Is marriage registration a condition of marriage, or the harmony of marriage ?. From all the discourses available, the writer concludes that the recording of marriage in the al-maslahah review is a new witness system, but cannot replace the position of the witnesses who have been introduced and patented in the construction of classical texts and fiqh. its existence is only as complementary, but it is very mandatory to be fulfilled because it impacts on aspects of marriage, both directly and indirectly, such as to the status of the child on a birth certificate, divorce, and other aspects as a result of a marriage, also divorce.

The Status of Food Security in West Africa

1997 ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
W. K. Asenso-Okyere ◽  
G. Benneh ◽  
W. Tims
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
West Africa ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals The status and conservation of the endemic bird species of São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Atkinson ◽  
Nic Peet ◽  
James Alexander
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
The Status ◽  
Data Book

SummaryFieldwork on the distribution, status and ecology of the endemic bird species of São Tomé and Príncipe was conducted from June to September 1990. The results are here combined with other evidence, notably from recent ICBP-backed fieldwork. Findings largely support existing Red Data Book listings, although Oriolus crassirostris is now found only in remote undisturbed areas at low density, and deserves “Rare” status. Particular achievements of the 1990 fieldwork were the first observations since the 1920s of Bostrychia bocagei, Lanius newtoni and Amaurocichla bocagii, the first two being very rare (one seen of each) and the last patchily common (along streams), records of all three being from either Rio Xufexufe or Rio Ana Chaves or both. Primary forest, mature secondary forest and shade forest are all important to the security of the full avifauna of both islands.

Survey of the status and distribution of primates in Togo (West Africa)

Biodiversity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto ◽  
Delagnon Assou ◽  
Koudzo D. Koda ◽  
Eric Koffi G. Agbessi ◽  
Komina H. Atsri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals The status of routine fishery data collection in Southeast Asia, central America, the South Pacific, and West Africa, with special reference to small-scale fisheries

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1743-1750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertjan J. de Graaf ◽  
Richard J. R. Grainger ◽  
Lena Westlund ◽  
Rolf Willmann ◽  
David Mills ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Central America ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Status And Trends ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fishery Data

Abstract de Graaf, G. J., Grainger, R. J. R., Westlund, L., Willmann, R., Mills, D., Kelleher, K., and Koranteng, K. 2011. The status of routine fishery data collection in Southeast Asia, central America, the South Pacific, and West Africa, with special reference to small-scale fisheries. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1743–1750. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) strategy for improving information on the status and trends of capture fisheries (FAO Strategy STF) was endorsed by Member States and the UN General Assembly in 2003. Its overall objective is to provide a framework, strategy, and plan to improve knowledge and understanding of the status and trends of fisheries as a basis for policy-making and management, towards conservation and sustainable use of resources within ecosystems. The FAO supports the implementation of FAO Strategy STF in developing countries through a project known as FAO FishCode–STF, and an initiative funded by the World Bank entitled the “BigNumbers project”. The BigNumbers project underscored the importance of small-scale fisheries and revealed that catches by and employment in this sector tend to be underreported. An inventory of data collection systems made under the FAO FishCode–STF project showed that small-scale fisheries are not well covered. Their dispersed nature, the weak institutional capacity in many developing countries, and the traditional methods used make routine data collection cumbersome. Innovative sampling strategies are required. The main priority is a sample frame for small-scale fisheries. Sustainable strategies are most likely to be found outside the sector through population and agricultural household censuses and inside the sector through the direct involvement of fishers.

scholarly journals Wetlands Conference in the Camargue

Oryx ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-40
Author(s):  
A. Daubercies
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
International Union ◽  
North West ◽  
Temperate Wetlands ◽  
Progressive Loss ◽  
The Status ◽  
Special Project ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Conservation And Management

The progressive loss of marshes, bogs and others wetlands through drainage and “improvement” led the Executive Board and the Ecology Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature to undertake a special project—project MAR—on the conservation and management of temperate wetlands. As with their African Special Project, the work is divided into three stages. First came the collection of data on the status and importance of wetlands and the methods by which they might most profitably be conserved: also the compiling of an inventory of important wetland areas in Europe and north-west Africa.

scholarly journals THE CHILD AS AN «ARCHETYPE», «PROTOTYPE» AND «ASSEMBLAGE POINT»

2021 ◽  
pp. 352-360
Author(s):  
Galina M. Ponomareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Scientific Paradigms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of

A new stage in the development of the humanities is largely connected with the understanding of the consequences of the «anthropological turn», the beginning of which is attributed to the 1960s-70s. Numerous discussions of this period led to the formation of new trends associated with the change of scientific paradigms and the transition to a post-non-classical interpretation of the «human phenomenon». The purpose of this article is to study the possible theoretical and methodological prospects that open up to philosophical anthropology due to the emergence of new explication models and new scientific lexicons. To achieve this goal, we chose the image of the Child, accumulating the most essential features of a person and a human being and interpreted metaphorically, as the starting point of the analysis. The Child is presented as an «anthropological constant» denoting a person’s ability to innovate and operate with imaginary phenomena endowed with the status of real ones. As an «anthropological constant», the Child acquires archetypal features that are significant for understanding the nature and meaning of any human activity and interpreting the processes of patterning human states. The approach developed in the article allows us to make several assumptions. First, the Child should be considered in the context of the drama of human existence, which consists in the infinite variability and fundamental incompleteness of the «human project». In this case, what comes to the fore is not the task of studying the boundaries of the human but the definition of the actual capabilities of a person. Secondly, the image of the Child embodies a state of transience, randomness. This requires a wider use of the method of multiple interpretations and post-phenomenological approaches within the framework of modern philosophical anthropology. Thirdly, the image of the Child embodies an existential conflict, which makes it possible to identify the complex dynamics of human states and describe them contextually.

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