Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo

Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies

Bibliographic Data

ID18985266
AuthorsArtwell Nhemachena (0000-0002-0811-9052, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume52
Issue8
Pages864-883
Publication date2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00219347211026012
OpenAlexW3171820162
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited13

Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not promising any return to original African human identities, Africans are set to be further nanotechnologically (using tiny nanoparticles) fabricated into cyborgs that speak to ongoing posthumanist and transhumanist experiments with emergent disruptive technologies. Inhabiting not only fabricated houses but also increasingly inhabiting nanotechnologically fabled and fabricated bodies, Africans should learn to, in terms of the Shona (a people of Zimbabwe) proverb, hakuna mhou inokumira mhuru isiri yayo (no cow lows for a calf that is not its own), repossess original mastery over their own lives

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Set (abstract data type) · Shona · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy