The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa
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...
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| description | 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 data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolutionis postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa’s peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-680962025-07-31T03:31:24Z The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa Benyera, Everisto Colonialism and imperialism Politics and government International relations 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 data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolutionis postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa’s peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy. 2021-04-22T15:03:34Z 2021 book https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/2615a69f-6907-4d5a-9364-3ed1065a90c2 ONIX_20210422_9781000396690_71 https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/2615a69f-6907-4d5a-9364-3ed1065a90c2 OCN: 1228230616 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48368 9781000396690 9780367744205 9781003157731 9780367744151 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68096 eng Routledge Contemporary Africa open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48368/1/9781000396690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48368/1/9781000396690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48368/1/9781000396690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48368/1/9781000396690.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48368/1/9781000396690.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003157731 10.4324/9781003157731 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched 9781000396690 9780367744205 9781003157731 9780367744151 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge African Studies 2020 - 2022 Routledge 200 open access |
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