TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ndasauka,Yamikani
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - African Mind, Culture, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives 
SN  - 9783031629792
AV  - T14 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, African
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Africa
KW  - Culture
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Philosophy of Technology
KW  - African Philosophy
KW  - African Culture
KW  - Artificial Intelligence
KW  - Science and Technology Studies
N1  - Chapter 1: Why African Philosophy of Technology? -- Chapter 2: Historical Origins of Technology in Africa -- Chapter 3: Decoding the Digital Revolution -- Chapter 4: Technologising Tradition or Traditionalising Technology? -- Chapter 5: Rethinking Technology Through African Philosophy -- Chapter 6: An African Social Constructivism of Technology -- Chapter 7: Harmonising Technology and Humanity through Ubuntu -- Chapter 8: The Spirits in the Machine -- Chapter 9: African Philosophy and the Quest for Just Technologies
N2  - This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values. It aims to spur discourse and understanding of how technology can be justly shaped for human advancement in Africa. Yamikani Ndasauka highlights the need to understand African conceptions of existence, ethics, and values as foundations for envisioning more humanistic technological applications. A historical contextualisation traces the layered origins of African technology philosophy in indigenous innovation, resistant adaptation of external systems, and creative fusion of endogenous and exogenous knowledge. The book develops African frameworks to assess and design technology in accord with human dignity and collective advancement. Yamikani Ndasauka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Malawi
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62979-2
ER  -