ABSTRACT
Some scholars suggest that when it comes to the question of the moral status of nonhuman nature, African philosophy is committed to anthropocentrism. The term anthropocentrism or anthropocentric entered the literature in the 1860s. This was following the controversy over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. It was coined to represent the idea that humans are the centre of the universe. The idea of the African hierarchy of beings that people find in Temples is underpinned by the force thesis, which is drawn from Bantu metaphysics. On the force thesis, beings are hierarchically ordered, namely, there is a causal dependence and relationship of forces. By communitarian philosophy, it is meant that the philosophy is one whereby community is important as much as beings are important. In other words, it is a view or a metaphysical worldview of the primacy of beings and community.
