IMPORT OF RELIGIO-CULTURAL ECUMENISM AND DIALOGUE ON HUMAN SECURITY IN AFRICA

Résumé

A Critical over-view of African environment unfolds a lot of issues on human security among Africans. Today it is agreeable that the world is a global village. Someone in one part of the continent is consistently updated and posted on issues affecting every nook and cranny of African continent on very close intervals. This globalization trends have related to all and sundry the issues affecting human security. Recently, in South Africa, it was xenophobia; in the South Sudan lives were lost because of political unrest. In Angola Africans (mainly Nigerians) were murdered in cold blood, in Nigeria people are kidnapped, murdered, raped, jailed unjustly. This research work intends to present religious and cultural ecumenism and dialogue as one of the ways of protecting human lives in Nigeria and Africa at large. It employs phenomenological research method. It also recommends for the adoption of religious and cultural ecumenism, dialogue, among other things as suggested solutions to the problems associated with human security in Africa. Data were gotten from primary and secondary sources. Data gotten were analysed with descriptive and historical method of data analysis.