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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.

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The papers here are a collection of vigorous and salient arguments advanced by emergent African scholarship which attempts with radical tenor to clarify the contradictions of African society. The notion of sovereignty is employed to examine the societal dynamics of contemporary Africa. The papers display intellectual originality, freshness and authority in the explorations they make. For academics, this volume is an encouraging product of our times and would serve to define African realities more autonomously. - Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Western Cape In this outstanding book, the authors assert that progress since the Industrial Revolution has generated freedom for some by enslaving others. Many are forced to work for the global elites. Pretending to create a bright future, globalisation causes profound disparities and fragmentation. We are warned not to forget that the world has been built on the bases of sacrifices that have only become more insidious. The arguments of the book are by no means exclusively about Africa. - Kiyoshi Umeya, Professor of Social Anthropology, Kobe University

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Artwell Nhemachena is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa, a visiting Associate Professor at Kobe University and he lectures at the University of Namibia. Munyaradzi Mawere is Professor of African Studies and incumbent Research Chair in the Simon Muzenda School of Arts, Culture and Heritage Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe. Oliver Mtapuri is a Professor in Development Studies at the School of Built Environment and Development in the College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

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