© 2023 The Author(s). Published and Maintained by Noyam Journals. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) ISSN – Online 2720-7722 | Print 2821-8949 Volume 4 Issue 9-September 2023 pp 1023-1032 Available online at: https://noyam.org/journals/ehass/ DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2023491 Instances of Ecocritical Dwelling in Cyprian Ekwensi’s Burning Grass Patricia Gustafson-Asamoah, 1 Confidence Gbolo Sanka, 1 Michelle Debrah 2 and Peter Arthur 1 1 Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. 2 Department of English Education, University of Education Winneba, Ghana. INTRODUCTION Literature is known to reflect all facets of life, thus, giving humans the chance to view all areas of life from different standpoints outside of themselves. These seeming reflections include theorizations of current issues such as environmental problems affecting our world. The birthing of ecocriticism which according to Nayar, “focuses on the material contexts of industrialization, development, pollution and ecocide while developing a frame for reading”, thus creates an awareness through “the word” of the current condition of the “the world.” 1 This is in terms of the treatment of it and its precursory impact on mankind. After all, as Merchant argues, “new social concerns generate new intellectual and historical problems and that new interpretations of the past provide perspectives on the present and hence, the power to change it. 2 The evolution of ecocriticism is, therefore, a result of ecoconsciousness or awareness which was posited by Panov as “a reflection of the psyche of a variety of man’s relationship with nature which mediate its behavior in the ‘natural world’, and express the axiological 1 Pramod K. Nayar, Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed (London & New York: Continuum, 2010), 242. 2 Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper Collins, 1980), xvi. 1 ABSTRACT Ecoconsciousness has resulted in the creation of Ecocriticism as a theory that looks at humans and their interactions with the natural world. The interest in this interaction comes as a result of the increasing concerns for possible threats to human life such as global warming, rising sea levels, land degradation, water shortage, air pollution and water pollution. This study sought to determine the presence of excerpts of Dwelling as an Ecocritical Trope under the themes of: Landscape of Memory, Ancestry, Death, Ritual, Life (Daily Living under Specific Settings and Work) as indicated by Garrard. Thus showing that, it is possible for humans to live peaceably with nature to ensure sustainability. This paper used the qualitative method with ecocriticism as the literary theory to back the study of Cyprian Ekwensi’s Burning Grass. The authors conducted an in- depth analysis of the novel to determine the evidence of tendencies of the aforementioned themes. This study, in conclusion, draws attention to the importance of living sustainably with nature. Keywords: Ecoconsciousness, Ecocriticism, Dwelling, Sustainably, Trope Correspondence Patricia Gustafson-Asamoah Email: aidoopatricia81@gmail.com Publication History Received 3 rd August, 2023 Accepted 21 st August, 2023 Published online 1 st September, 2023