ABSTRACT
The logic behind all revolutions is to do away with an order of things deemed to be undesirable. A key ingredient of revolutions is the unquestionable desire by the people to move away from a certain status quo. According to Nhemachena, the 4IR therefore represents a period where massive disruptions in virtually all facets of life will be experienced at a rapid rate. Key casualties will be democracy, human rights, and development. Civilisations transition from one mode to another. These transitions could be endogenously or exogenously driven. African nationalism must be reinvented by African nationalists so that it aligns with the youth, tapping into new technologies, and shying away from xenophobia and other negative, divisive social markers. There is an indisputable link between industrial revolutions and atrocities, and what happened in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the collecting of rubber during the first industrial revolution illustrates this well.
