Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18985266
AutoresArtwell Nhemachena (0000-0002-0811-9052, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume52
Fascículo8
Páginas864-883
Data de publicação2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00219347211026012
OpenAlexW3171820162
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas13

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