1st Edition
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa The Coloniality of Data
By Everisto Benyera
Copyright 2021
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community.
In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via... Read more
1. Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR
2. Historicising Africa’s subjugation
3. Contextualising the colonial project in Africa
4. Data mining, harvesting and datafication
5. Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa’s sovereignty?
6. The 4IR as the mother of all destructions and accumulations
7. Mapping Africa’s destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
8. Africa’s eunuch condition and the omnipresent footprints of the four industrial
Biography
Everisto Benyera is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of South Africa.
