African Values, Ethics, and Technology

1. Introduction: Charting an African Perspective of Technological Innovation.- Part I The Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Ethics.- 2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Africa's Future: Reflections from African Ethics.- 3. Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A status quaestionis, from the cultural to the phenomenological.- Part II African Values, and Technology.- 4. African Reasons Why AI Should Not Maximize Utility.- 5. Values and Technological Development in an African Context.- 6. African Cultural Values, Practices and Modern Technology.- Part III Technology, African Ethics and Sexual Relations.- 7. Shifting Intimate Sexual Relations from Humans to Machines: An African Indigenous Ethical Perspective.- 8. The Death of Isintu in Contemporary Technological Era: The Ethics of Sex Robots Among the Ndebele of Matabo.- Part IV Technology, African Values and Human Relationship.- 9. The Importance of a Neo-African Communitarianism in Virtual Space: An Ethical Inquiry for the African Teenager.- 10. The Ambivalent Role of Technology on Human Relationships: An Afrocentric Exploration.- 11. Interrogating Social Media Group Communication's Integrity: An African, Utilitarian Perspective.- Part V Bioethics, African Values and Technology.- 12. Bioethics and Technology: An African Ethical Perspective.- 13. The Use of Sex Selection Reproductive Technology in Traditional African Societies: An Ethical Evaluation and a Case for Its Adaptation.- 14. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Indigenous Akan Ethics:  A Critical Analysis.- Part VI African Religious Values and Technology.- 15. The Impact of Technologies on African Religions: A Theological Perspective.- 16. Technologization of Religion: The Unstoppable Revolution in the Zimbabwean Mainline Churches.

Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu is Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she is also the Director of the Ethics Studies Department.