From #RhodesMustFall Movements to #Human

Movements in the Age of the Trans-humanist Geographies of Death

Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira, Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira, Bornway Mwanyara Chiripanhura, Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira, Bornway Mwanyara Chiripanhura

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9789956551941
• eBook ISBN: 9789956552368
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Might it be possible that the world is being migrated into an era where the imperial periphery will be increasingly governed through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics designed to replace human beings? Celebrated as efficient, strong, unfailing, tireless, precise and beyond corruption, AI and robots are set to replace African leaders who are imperially deemed to be and consistently condemned as corrupt, failed, weak and inefficient. But, if these AI and robots are neo-imperial tools and machinations, the million-dollar question is whether empire is not returning to recolonise the [supposedly inefficient] Africans via the new technologies and machinism? Where Africans once celebrated their liberation war movements, empire has emplaced what it calls liberation technologies designed to supposedly liberate African youths from their own states and governments led by liberation movements. Where Africans once celebrated their liberation war movements, empire has placed its own NGOs/CSOs spewing liberal ideologies designed to ostensibly liberate African youths from their own supposedly failed and corrupt states and government leaders. With African youths/citizens allying not with their liberation movements but with the liberation technologies and liberal NGOs/CSOs, it is not surprising why African citizens oppose their states-led Fast-Track Land Redistribution Programmes while ironically they happily celebrate Fast-Tracked COVID-19 Vaccines. Positing the notion of #HumansMustFall movements, this book underscores ways in which empire is in a process of eternal return to 21st century Africa. The book is crucial for scholars and activists in political science, government studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, history, languages and communication studies, security studies, military studies and development studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• About the Authors
• Contents
• Preface
• Keynote Address - Humanisation of Research in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Implications of a Posthuman / Postanthropocentric Turn on Africa
• Chapter One - #HumansMustFall Movements and the Transhumanist Future of African Liberation without African Liberation Movements: A Decolonial Introduction
• Chapter Two - COVID-19 and the Eternal Return of Empire? Fast-Tracking Nothing Else But Vaccines
• Chapter Three - African Liberation Movements and Discourses of State Weakness, Failure, Corruption and Collapse
• Chapter Four - African Liberation Movements and the Youth’s Landlessness/Unemployment Time-Bomb in Southern Africa
• Chapter Five - Compensating War Veterans in a Semi-Liberated Country: The Case of Zimbabwe
• Chapter Six - Rhetoric and National Liberation Movements’ Choral Groups: Preparing Zimbabwe for Resistance to Foreign Hegemony in the 21st Century
• Chapter Seven - Muchongoyo Dance and its Role in the Liberation of Contemporary Zimbabweans
• Chapter Eight - Ubuntu , African Renaissance and the Disruptive Effects of Western Music
• Chapter Nine - Challenges and Opportunities for Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century: The Roles of African Liberation Movements in Promoting Pan-Africanism
• Chapter Ten - ‘Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom’: South African Liberation Movements and ‘Post-Apartheid’ Socio-economic Conditions
• Chapter Eleven - Deconstructing the Zimbabwean Liberation War Heroine Narratives? An Analysis of The Herald’s Framing of the Expulsion of Joice Teurai Ropa Mujuru from ZANU PF and Government
• Chapter Twelve - Beyond Western and Eastern “Investors”: African National Liberation Movements and the National Investment Question
• Chapter Thirteen - ‘Makwerekwerisation’ and the Quest for African Renaissance: South African Film and Perceptions on ‘Foreigners’ Before May 2008
• Chapter Fourteen - Culture: A Platform and Prime Mover of African Revolutions
• Chapter Fifteen - Autonomy and Sovereignty in Pre-colonial Namibia: A Case of Aawambo People
• Chapter Sixteen - Colonial Ethnic Divisions and Implications for Unity: Forging the Way Forward for Nigerians
• Chapter Seventeen - Building a Nation, Suppressing Ethnicity: The Case of Post-independence Tanzania
• Chapter Eighteen - The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Imperatives of African States’ Sovereignty over Natural Resources
• Chapter Nineteen - The Relevance of the African Union in the African Liberation Agenda
• Back cover