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Sovereignty becoming pulvereignty : unpacking the dark side of slave 4. 0 within Industry 4. 0 in twenty-first century Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nhemachena, Artwell (Editor), Mtapuri, Oliver (Editor), Mawere, Munyaradzi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2022]
Subjects:
Ethnoscience.
Slavery.
Sovereignty.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • References
  • Chapter 3
  • Missionaries that "Muted" God: Gagging the Voices of African Sovereigns While Enslaving and Colonising Africans
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4
  • Operation Dudula, Xenophobic Vigilantism and Sovereignty in Twenty-First Century South Africa
  • Introduction
  • 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