
Global Capital's 21st Century Reposition
Between COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Africa
- 364 pages
- English
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Global Capital's 21st Century Reposition
Between COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Africa
About this book
What happens at the interface between Afrocentricity and COVID-19 is cause for wonder in a world that is anxious to short circuit global solidarity by trampling Pan-Africanism. Revolutions, including the Fourth Industrial Revolution, are rarely contextualised within the framework of Pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity even when they are celebrated as beneficial to the world. Interfacing Afrocentricity, COVID-19, Pan-Africanism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this book teases out the profound challenges of the 21st century. Calling for African solutions premised on African solidarity, the book critically engages the contemporary technological solutionism and technological evangelism that undergirds the Fourth Industrial Revolution and efforts to find vaccines for COVID-19. Unflinchingly interrogating these issues, the book is useful for scholars and activists in education, African languages, sociology, social anthropology, political science, history, religious studies, development studies, communication, medical sciences and legal studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- About the Authors
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One - “Nature’s” Role in 21st Century Revolutions? COVID-19, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Repositioning of Global Capital
- Chapter Two - The Preparedness of Africans for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and for COVID-19
- Chapter Three - Vaccinations in Africa: The Paradox of Human Rights and Human Experiments
- Chapter Four - COVID-19 and Southern Africa Development Community (SADC): A Litmus Test for Regional Solidarity
- Chapter Five - Inclusive Contextual Approach in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case for Ubuntu and the Zimbabwe Constitution
- Chapter Six - Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 on African Education Systems: A Case Study of Namibia
- Chapter Seven - Shona Culture and a New World Order: Fissures, Strategies and Mitigation in COVID 19 Era
- Chapter Eight - Dark Humour and its Implications: A Semiotic Reading of Comic Clips on the COVID-19 Pandemic on Shona Culture
- Chapter Nine - Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19: An Agenda for African Languages
- Chapter Ten - The Healing Practitioner has Retreated Back to the Trenches: Healing and Spirituality During COVID-19
- Chapter Eleven - Exploring African Women and Girls’ Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Gendered Framework Perspective
- Chapter Twelve - Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Emergent Electronic Commerce – Convergence of ICT and Financial Sectors in Africa and Lessons from other Continents: The Question of Jurisdiction
- Chapter Thirteen - Theorising vulnerabilities in a context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19
- Chapter Fourteen - Re-imagining Teaching and Learning in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for African Higher Education Institutions
- Back cover