Sovereignty becoming pulvereignty : unpacking the dark side of slave 4. 0 within Industry 4. 0 in twenty-first century Africa / editors, Artwell Nhemachena, Oliver Mtapuri & Munyaradzi Mawere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nhemachena, Artwell, editor.

Mtapuri, Oliver, editor.

Mawere, Munyaradzi, editor.

Project Muse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoscience.

Slavery.

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2022]

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

Introduction

Slave 4.0: Twenty-first century Africans stepping onto the point of no return

Enslaved through discourses on efficiency: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Predatory sovereignty and global patriarchs of the Global North

Chapter outlines

References

Chapter 2

African Sovereignty at Stake: Technologies of Enslavement and Destruction in Twenty-First Century Africa

Technologies of capture and the risk of disappointment cycles in Africa

Even slaves were enhanced for the benefit of slave masters: Africans' new debt trap in the form of mind enhancement software traps

Parallels between the historical enslavement and new forms of enslavement

Even slave masters needed to monitor and surveil their human properties: Becoming shambolic with invasive technologies

Conclusion

Chapter 3

Missionaries that "Muted" God: Gagging the Voices of African Sovereigns While Enslaving and Colonising Africans

Guerrilla missionaries who challenged God's sovereignty

Defiling holy places in Africa: Engraving colonialists in African sacred places

Deconstructing African sovereignty in the absence of God's voice

Quietly grabbing African land while inserting the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The missionaries of disaster and revolutions of poverty in Africa: The logics of Pachamama

It's not just land deals but there are many deals: Networking deals, African minds-capturing deals and human reengineering deals in slave 4.0

References

Chapter 4

Operation Dudula, Xenophobic Vigilantism and Sovereignty in Twenty-First Century South Africa

Kuwanda huuya : Lessons from African exogamy and the Dudula brigade's retreat inwards

Historical context of South African vigilantism

Operation Dudula and its motives

The emergence of Operation Dudula

Operation Dudula and its consequences

Theorising xenophobic vigilantism

Conclusion

Notes:

References -- Chapter 5 - Precolonial African Economic Sovereignty: A Critical Analysis of the Utility of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Achieving Economic Growth in Africa -- Introduction -- Indigenous knowledge systems -- IKS and agriculture -- Mining and trade among Africans -- The slave trade and its implications on African economic sovereignty -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 - Environmental and Economic Sovereignty through African Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Insights from Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Conceptualization of terms -- Study area and methodology

Harnessing of IKS in adaptation strategies

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Other Format:

Print version: Nhemachena, Artwell Sovereignty Becoming Pulvereignty

ISBN:

9789956552825

9956552828

Publisher Number:

99992175537

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