Abstract
ABSTRACT
In the current discourse of African philosophy, there is an ostensible incompatibility between the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the epistemic decolonisation project. Contemporary African philosophers are intellectually at loggerheads with each other on the significance of the epistemic decolonisation project within the context of the 4IR. However, in this dissertation, I integrate the two, the 4IR and the epistemic decolonisation project, and I argue that Africans must embrace the 4IR, but for Africans to reduce the negative impact of the 4IR, Africans ought to urgently seek epistemic emancipation first, and this can be obtained by pursuing epistemic decolonisation as a Double Enlightenment Project (DEP), and all other things will then follow.