What Is Wrong with Us? When we treat trees as strangers and forget we are part of nature

There is a quiet contradiction unfolding across Africa, and it deserves urgent reflection. We are a continent whose ancestors understood the sacred value of forests, rivers, wetlands, and sacred groves. Across generations, African societies lived with an instinctive awareness that human life was inseparable from nature. Trees were not viewed merely as timber. Rivers were not seen merely as water channels. Forests were not empty land waiting to be cleared. They were living systems that sustained life, moderated climate, protected soils, and preserved the delicate balance between human existence and the natural world.

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