ABSTRACT
Drawing together the various strands of arguments cascading from the previous seven chapters links Africa’s concerted efforts to turn over a new leaf with the current age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, thereby reflecting on the implications of this revolution on Africa’s struggles to turn over a new leaf from a decolonial perspective. The chapter proceeds to reflect on other the key contemporary challenges facing Africa, such as the resurgence of the ugly head of military interventions in civilian politics and in thwarting the possibilities of democratic transitions in countries like Egypt, Zimbabwe, Algeria, and Sudan. In the process it reveals how liberal democracy itself is in trouble partly because it has been used by racist, populists, and xenophobes to ascend to power in the USA, Brazil, and other places, and partly since it has failed to resolve inequalities and poverty at a world scale. While the concluding chapter also documents noticeable and commendable initiatives, such as the agreements on the creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), common currency for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) known as ‘eco,’ and the escalating struggles and attempts by some activists from Francophone African states to liberate themselves from the neo-colonial reality of CFA franc (monetary slavery/monetary imperialism), it underscores the necessity of epistemic freedom to avoid the crisis of repetition without change. At the end the chapter reinforces the case for decolonization as a better path into the future.
