ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things refers to the datafication of everyday modes of life through internet-enhanced devices such as “wearable devices and gadgets, agricultural machinery, retail analytics and healthcare”. Big data refers to the ways of managing, processing, and storing big data sets and volumes which are not fit to be dealt with using conventional methodologies and systems. Although Africa managed to gain political independence, this was the first process characterised by what Ndlovu-Gatsheni termed the myth of decolonisation. Decolonisation meant Africa gained political power only and without economic and epistemological power and sovereignty. The idea of the racial superiority of the whites over the black was heavily funded by the Pioneer Fund which was established in 1937 by United States Colonel Wickliffe Preston Draper. Colonialism bequeathed Africa a plethora of omnipresent networks which actualise Samir Amin’s five monopolies of capitalism: war, technology, natural resources, news, and technology.
