03467nam 2200505 450 991047682980332120221223090718.01-00-315773-41-000-39669-X1-003-15773-4(CKB)5590000000466593(NjHacI)995590000000466593(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68096(EXLCZ)99559000000046659320221223d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa the coloniality of data /Everisto BenyeraTaylor & Francis2021London :Routledge,2021.1 online resource (212 pages)Routledge Contemporary Africa0-367-74415-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR -- Historicising Africa's subjugation -- Contextualising the colonial project in Africa -- Data mining, harvesting and datafication -- Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? -- The 4IR as the mother of all destructions and accumulations -- Mapping Africa's destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Africa's eunuch condition and the omnipresent footprints of the four industrial revolutions."This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolution is postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa's peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy"-- Provided by publisher.International business enterprisesAfricaData miningAfricaAfricaForeign economic relationsEuropeColonialism and imperialismPolitics and governmentInternational relationsInternational business enterprisesData mining337.604Benyera Everisto1271720NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476829803321The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa2995791UNINA