African Environmental Apprehensions: A Unifying Pool for Rousseau’s Emile and Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

African environmental concerns in context are principally a pull factor to global environmental anxieties; principally from the backdrop of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s state of nature and Pope Francis’ ecological economics and socio-environmental concerns. Inevitably, Rousseau’s environmental naturalism and Pope Francis’ ecological economics and socio-environmental concerns, find a reconciliatory pool in African environmental ethics. Hence, despite under-explored and derelict issues of contemporary environmental philosophy and ethics, critically, aspects of nature’s moral status, African conceptions of animal status and rights, environmental justice, and African relational/communitarian environmentalism (Ubuntu) provide a platform enhancing environmental safety; guaranteed by attractive common grounds with Rousseau and Pope Francis’ worldviews. Explicitly, arguments in this paper aim at raising awareness toward environmental ethical compliance, contributing towards building an ecological family, and consciousness of the consequences our actions have on the global village. Intentionally, by structuralizing this paper into understanding African cosmology and environmental ethics/apprehensions, Rousseau’s Emile and environmental naturalism, Pope Francis’ Laudato Si, and diverse environmental considerations as a reconciliatory pool, convincingly ensures conservation of nature and harmonizing global living.