Nhemachena: Sovereignty Becoming Pulvereignty

Unpacking the Dark Side of Slave 4.0 Within Industry 4.0 in Twenty-First Century Africa

Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Oliver Mtapuri, Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Oliver Mtapuri

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9789956552818
• eBook ISBN: 9789956552825
• Edition: 1
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies

This book delves into the topical issue of the future of humanity and of being African in a world increasingly subjected to the power of technology and the dominance of a mercilessly self-absolved global elite. A slave is not only someone who is materially impoverished but also someone who is deprived of autonomy and sovereignty in the sense of being physically or virtually chained or shackled to human and nonhuman networks that negate the essence of the "I" or the "self". Discoursing the neologism slave 4.0 with the ongoing 21st century revolutions designed to create flat ontologies, this book argues that the world is witnessing not only the emergence of industry 4.0 but also the concomitant emergence of slave 4.0. Whereas historically, Africans were physically captured and transported across the Atlantic Ocean, minds of twenty-first century Africans are set to be nanotechnologically scanned, captured and transferred to the metaverse where they will neither own natural resources nor biologically reproduce. The book is handy for scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, government studies, development studies, digital humanities, environmental studies, religious studies, theology, missiology, science and technology studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on the Authors
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Revolutions that Enslave Others: Exposing the Dark Side of Slave 4.0 in “Postsovereignity” Twenty-First Century Africa
• Chapter 2 - African Sovereignty at Stake: Technologies of Enslavement and Destruction in Twenty-First Century Africa
• Chapter 3 - Missionaries that “Muted” God: Gagging the Voices of African Sovereigns While Enslaving and Colonising Africans
• Chapter 4 - Operation Dudula, Xenophobic Vigilantism and Sovereignty in Twenty-First Century South Africa
• Chapter 5 - Precolonial African Economic Sovereignty: A Critical Analysis of the Utility of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Achieving Economic Growth in Africa
• Chapter 6 - Environmental and Economic Sovereignty through African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Insights from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
• Chapter 7 - The Knowledge About and Worshipping of the Heavenly God in Precolonial Africa
• Chapter 8 - Lies, Fears and the Scandals of Missionaries: Contesting Christian Conceptions about God in Africa
• Chapter 9 - Colonial Theft and Pollution of African Environments
• Chapter 10 - Implications of Contemporary Transnational Land Grabs on African Economic and Environmental Sovereignty
• Chapter 11 - Environmental Sovereignty, North-South Dialogues and Sustainable Development in Africa
• Chapter 12 - Food Sovereignty and Stewardship Over Animals: Experiences of Elderly Female-Headed Households in Domboshava Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
• Chapter 13 - The African Union and its Role in Ensuring African Economic and Environmental Sovereignty
• Chapter 14 - Chidembo Tamba Tamba Muswe Ndakabata: Interrogating the New Empire’s Technologies of Remote Control on the Sovereignty of Twenty-First Century Africans
• Chapter 15 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The First Robotization of Africans
• Back cover