1st Edition

African Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Change, Policies, and Approaches

Edited By Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Bhaso Ndzendze Copyright 2025
338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century proliferation of mobile internet, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The move towards digitalization brings fundamental changes in the way people work, live and generally relate to each other. However, in many areas of Africa, women face digital... Read more

Chapter 1. Women and the 4IR in Africa

Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo and Bhaso Ndzendze      

Chapter 2. IR for, not against, African Women  

Mpho Nyamathe and Mancha J. Sekgololo        

Chapter 3. The Role of Women in the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Africa

Adeyinka Patrick Adewumi, Tahir Adekunle Ijaiya and Ibukunoluwa Zainab Oluotanmi  

Chapter 4. Technological Adaptation and Sociopolitical Behavior of Women in Africa    

Jeremiah Oluwadara Omotayo 

Chapter 5. Africa’s Economy in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Assessment of Gender in Financial Inclusion

Kemi Funlayo Akeju    

Chapter 6. Women’s Inequality in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: The Response from Botswana and South Africa

Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo

Chapter 7. Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Perspectives, Opportunities, and Implications for Nigeria and South Africa         

Dare Leke Idowu

Chapter 8. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Challenges and Impact on Zimbabwe Women

Valerie Rumbidzai Jeche          

Chapter 9.  Digital Gender Inclusion and Women's Economic Empowerment in Ethiopia and Nigeria

Omosefe Oyekanmi

Chapter 10. An Exploration of the Indispensability and Challenges of Digitalization through the Lens of Women in the Maritime Domain

Adeola Oluwatoyin Osundiran

Chapter 11. Covid-19 and the Digital Transformation in Nigeria’s Higher Education System: Gendered Discourses           

Moses Metumara Duruji, Edidiong Samuel Akpabio and Efehi Raymond Okoro

Chapter 12. Smartphone-Mediated Co-Presence Amid Covid-19: A Case Study of African Migrant Women in Johannesburg, South Africa      

Celine Meyers 

Chapter 13. Gender Equity, Good Governance, and Leadership in the 4IR in Eastern Cape Schools

Mpumelelo Ndlovu and Tafadzwa Clementine Maramura

Chapter 14. Using Digital Technology to Address Gender-Based Violence in South Africa

Zainab Monisola Olaitan

Chapter 15. Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics:  The Case of Malian Women

Blessing Mbalaka, James Maisiri and Ugar Edmund Teren        

Chapter 16. Fourth Industrial Revolution and Women’s Peacebuilding Initiatives in Africa

Victor Ogunele Obaba, Omosefe Oyekanmi and Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo

Chapter 17. A Digital Divide: Assessing the Developmental Status for Women in Rural Areas in the Advent of the 4IR in South Africa

Nomzamo Gondwe       

Chapter 18. Drones, Artificial intelligence (AI), the Chibok Girls and the Future of Counterterrorism in Nigeria

Sven Botha

Biography

Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Head Unit of Pan-African Women studies at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bhaso Ndzendze is an Associate Professor, Vice Dean of Internalisation, and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ndzendze is also Head of the 4IR and Digital Policy Research Unit and Co-Chair of the Internationalisation Task Team at the University of Johannesburg.