Ifa Concept on Environmental Pollution

Abstract

Environmental pollution, expectedly, has been looked at from technological and scientific perspectives. However, this important subject has not been sufficiently examined from Ifá, the wisdom bag of the Yorùbá people of South-western Nigeria. Ifá corpus has revealed the importance of preserving the environment from being polluted. Ifá plays a leading role in teaching some ethics on socio-cultural and inter-personal relationships among the Yorùbá people but also their relationship to the ecosystem. The study will examine the concept of Ifá on the environment using Wande Abimbola's Ìjìnlẹ̀ Ohùn Ẹnu Ifá II, interpreting it with the mirror image approach of sociological framework. It will also evaluate the impact of pollution on the contemporary society. Finally, it will reveal the values of protecting the environment against any form of pollution which may hamper the healthy living of humans and non-human organisms in the environment.