The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa: The Coloniality of Data

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
1 Data Coloniality: A Decolonial Perspective of Africa and the 4IR
	Introduction
	Decoloniality: Affirming a Concept
	Coloniality of Data
	Decolonisation as a Myth and the Elusiveness of Epistemic Freedom
	The Myth of D4D: Data for Development as Coloniality of Data
	The 4IR and the Resilience of Colonialism
	Organisation of the Book
	Note
2 Historicising Africa’s Subjugation
	Introduction
	Where It All Began: Africa’s Conquest
	The Genealogy of Africa’s Colonisation
3 Contextualising the Colonial project in Africa
	Introduction
	Hunters and Traders: Missionaries as the Link
	Capitalism as Destructive Extractivism
	The Empire and African States Without De Facto Sovereignty
	The Consolidation of Coloniality in Africa
	Africa’s Cyberspace as Terra Nullius, Res Nullius, and Tabula Rasa
	Of the Two Triads Plus China and the Squeezing of Africa
	China’s (re)colonisation: He Who Owns the Debt controls the Continent
	China’s Growing Political Capital in Africa
	America’s War On Terror as a Cover for the (re)colonisation of Africa
4 Data Mining, Harvesting, and Datafication
	“To Every Birth Its Blood”: To Every Industrial revolution Its Death
	Data as a Raw Material
	Coloniality of Data and Technical Rationality
	Consistent Extraction and Pilfering African Resources
	Decentring and Dispossessing Throughout the Industrial Revolutions
	Africa and Data Slavery
	“If You’re Not Paying for It, You Are the Product”
	The Data-Coloniality Nexus: Vladmir Lenin Revisited
	Data Colonialism and Multilateralism
	Whose Data Is It Anyway?
	Data Storage: Who Is Responsible for Storing Data?
	Note
5 Networks, Big Data, and data Coloniality: Whither Africa’s Sovereignty?
	Introduction
	Political, Economic, and Epistemological (re)colonisation
	On Colonialism, Decolonisation, Coloniality, and (re)colonisation
	Colonial Networks
	Of the Cross: On Religious Networks
	Of the Dollar: Financial Networks
	Of the Mighty: Imperial Networks
	Epistemological Networks
	Products of the 4IR: Networks and Big Data
	How Will Africa Lose Its Sovereignty in the 4IR
	Over-integrated Euro-North America and the challenges of (un)integrating
	Conclusion
6 The 4IR as the Mother of All Destructions and Accumulations
	Introduction
	Africa and the 4IR: Whither Africa?
	The Logic of Western Accumulation
	The Benefits of the 4IR to Humanity
	Even Marx and Marxists Love the 4IR: For Different Reasons
	Capitalist Accumulation and the Destruction of non-Western Epistemologies
	Accumulating What? Wealth for West, Poverty for the Rest
	Digital Inequality and Digital Slavery as a Result of digital Accumulation
	The 4IR and the Never-Ending Reinvention of Africa
7 Mapping Africa’s Destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
	Introduction
	Deindustrialisation, More Unemployment, and wider, Deeper Poverty in 4IR Africa
	4IR Sovereignty and Human Rights Reconceptualised
	Artificial Intelligence and the 4IR: A Political Perspective
	Disruptions as the Sine Qua Non for Revolutions
	Welcome Robo-Humans and Robo-Humans-Trans-Humans: The New family Members
	Cyborgs, Trans-Humans, Extropianism, and the uploading of Immortality
	Tracing Africa’s Vulnerability to (re)colonisation
	4IR as An African Problem: On Ota Benga’s Omnipresent Fate
	The Weaponisation of Citizenship in the 4IR
	The Five Monopolies of Capitalism: Cementing the Fate of Africa in the 4IR
	Africa, the 4IR, and the Matthew Effect
8 Africa’s Eunuch Condition and the Omnipresent Footprints of the Four Industrial Revolutions
	Introduction
	The Logics of Revolutions
	Revolutionary Winners and Losers
	Many and Endless Societal Transitions
	Africa Into the 4IR: Entering a Revolution without An Ideology
	Genocide as the Underwriters of Revolutions
	Personal Data: The New Oil and Gold
	Can Africa Fight Back?
	Africa: What Is to Be Done?
	Forward With Data Localisation
	Note
	References
Index