Abstract

Ethics as a normative science concerns what is proper or improper in human conduct. When this is applied to what ought to be people’s relationship with “The Land” in Annangland, a whole boundless and infinite spectrum of reality is unfolded, because of the socio-religious connotations of the “Land” in the Annang Nation. There is something of the divine in the land; she is a Deity; hence the common designation THE MOTHER EARTH. She cares, sustains, nourishes, grooms, upholds, pampers, caresses and shelters her children in the warmth and tenderness of her bosom. In the past this lavishing tenderness called for total submission to and respect for environment whose greatest representative the Land is. This paper is a sensitization in an area of environmental ethics, seriously menaced in today’s conscienceless civilization. The paper advocates a return to the African root; to the ancestral wisdom. This attitudinal return to the root should become a mark of identity wherever Africans are found. The method employed in this research paper is critically exploratory.