SILENCING THE SPIRITS OF THE SHRINES: THE IMPACT OF TIN MINING ON BEROM RELIGION AND ECOLOGY

📄 Project Abstract

The Jos Plateau environment in general and Beromland in particular has witnessed severe decimation and change due to a number of agents of change. These agents of change have created a great ecological imbalance on the land, even as tin mining activities have left behind human-made ponds, dumps, bare vegetation, and have precipitated an avalanche of gully erosion and other activities of denudation that are now a common phenomenon on the Jos Plateau landscape. Many researchers have ventured into several aspects of mining activities with no recourse to the aspect of religion. The work further highlight on religion, considered as an important aspect of Berom existence that was destroyed through tin mining, thus precipitating an ecological crisis. Religious and cultural practices can and should be adopted as blueprints to address the present environmental crisis. This is because religious and cultural practices have demonstrated a high sense of love and care for the environment. Aside from...