E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) ISSN 2720-7722 | Volume 1 Issue 5 – September 2020 pp 185 - 194 Available online at: https://noyam.org/journals/ehass/ https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2020097 © 2020 The Authors. Published and Maintained by Noyam Publishers. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Environmental Ethics in Akyem Abuakwa: Developing theEcological Zone through the African Worldview ABSTRACT Akyem Abuakwa’s geographical location puts her in a diferent environmental condition.Both natural and human factors have combined in causing massive environmental degradation and ecological crisis. Te environmental degradation and ecological crisis call for exploration of indigenous knowledge to construct indigenous ecological orientations and environmental concerns that could be relevant to recent times. Using qualitative design, the study found out that the traditional belief among the people of Abuakwa has created the awareness that human beings are answerable to the line of ancestors for their stewardship over the non-human parts of creation-land, fora and fauna; all these belong to the ancestors. Te study proposes that environmental ethics through the African worldview and bioethical African worldview would dictate a fresh environmental concern and ecological orientation for the world today. Te study is relevant as it contributes to traditional environmental conservation ethics. Keywords: Eco-theology, communalism, conservation, kinship, ethics. INTRODUCTION Akyem Abuakwa’s 1 ecological zone puts her in a diferent environmental condition. Te area is endowed with rich natural resources ranging from dense forest vegetation with a number of plant species, minerals such as gold and diamond, among several others. It has been observed that rapid change has bedevilled the once cherished environmental condition over the last two decades. Tis rapid change has both natural and human factors combined in causing environmental degradation and ecological crisis. Besides the natural factors, human activities such as surface mining, logging, sand winning, pollution of all kinds have degraded the environment creating an ecological crisis. Te environmental degradation and ecological crisis call for exploration of indigenous knowledge to construct indigenous ecological orientations and environmental concerns that could be relevant to contemporary times. Tis work focuses on creating environmental and ecological awareness, which is ethically based through the lenses of traditional African/Akan worldview. It further focuses on some traditional ethical theories and contemporary environmental ethics and fnds out how they impact on the environmental debate in Akyem Abuakwa. Tis paper looks at environmental ethics from African perspective, environmental ethics through traditional religious philosophy of the people and also through the African moral world. Recommendations are made on ways by which environmental ethics through African/Akan worldview could be harnessed to conserve and protect the environmental resources within the study unit. A brief geographical description of Akyem Abuakwa Akyem Abuakwa, the largest sub-division of the three Akyem divisions is an Akan community that can be found in the 1 Akyem Abuakwa, an Akan community is a traditional state and can be located in the Eastern region of Ghana; S. Asiedu-Amoako, M.K. Ntiamoah and V.S. Gedzi. ‘Environmental Degradation: A challenge to traditional leadership at Akyem Abuakwa in the Eastern Region of Ghana’. American Journal of Indigenous Studies, 1, (2016) A1- A13. Correspondence Michael Kwadwo Ntiamoah Email: nanakntiamoah@gmail.com Publication History Received 19th August 2020, Accepted 15th September 2020, Published online 28th September 2020. Samuel Asiedu-Amoako 1 & Michael Kwadwo Ntiamoah 2 1 Christian Service University College, Kumasi-Ghana. 2 Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. © 2020 The Authors. Published and Maintained by Noyam Publishers. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).