Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty

The emergent so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is regarded
by some as a panacea for bringing about development to Africans. This
book dismisses this flawed reasoning. Surfacing how “investors” are
actually looting and plundering Africa; how the industrial internet of
things, the gig economies, digital economies and cryptocurrencies breach
African political and economic sovereignty, the book pioneers what can
be called anticipatory economics – which anticipate the future of
economies. It is argued that the future of Africans does not necessarily
require degrowth, postgrowth, postdevelopment, postcapitalism or
sharing/solidarity economies: it requires attention to age-old questions
about African ownership and control of their resources. Investors have
to invest in ensuring that Africans own and control their resources.
Further, it is pointed out that the historical imperial structural
creation of forced labour is increasingly morphing into what we call the
structural creation of forced leisure which is no less lethal for
Africans. Because both the structural creation of forced labour and the
structural creation of forced leisure are undergirded by transnational
neo-imperial plunder, theft, robbery, looting and dispossession of
Africans, this book goes beyond the simplistic arguments that
Euro-America developed due to the industrial revolutions.