This document discusses several topics related to Africa's history and future potential, including its important ancient inventions, traditional decentralized political systems, colonial centralization, and modern innovations. It notes that Africa was an early innovator in fields like writing, medicine, architecture, and more. Prior to colonialism, African societies had many autonomous states and groups. The document suggests Africa is well-positioned to thrive in future technologies and economic systems through its traditions of community, decentralization, and strengths in fields like art.

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The Future of
AFRICA
Africa 5.0

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12 Greatest inventions that can be
attributed to ancient Africa
Speech - sub-Saharan Africa
during the Middle Stone Age
Writing - earliest Egyptian
hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE
Medicine - The earliest known
surgery was performed in Egypt
around 2750 BC
Architecture - Great Pyramid of
Giza, which was probably
completed c. 2580 BC
Mathematics - The oldest known
mathematical object is the
Lebombo bone, discovered in
Swaziland approximately 35,000
BC
Mining of minerals - The oldest
known mine on archaeological
record is tin Swaziland, which
radiocarbon dating shows to be
about 43,000 years old
Iron Smelting - iron smelting and
working in West Africa by 1200 BC
Religion - Greek historian Diodorus
Siculus wrote about the
''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt” it was
among them that people were first
taught to honor the gods and offer
sacrifices and arrange processions
and festivals”
Laws - Stephanus of Byzantium
said "Ethiopia was the first
established country on the earth,
and the Ethiopians were the first
who introduced the worship of the
Gods and who established laws.”
International Trade – Arnold
Hermann Heeren a Professor of
History and Politics in the University
of Gottengen wrote ”it was among
these ancient Black people of Africa
and Asia that international trade
was first developed”
Philosophy - ''Ancient Egyptian
philosophy has been credited by
the ancient Greeks as being the
beginning of philosophy’’
Art - The oldest art objects in the
world—a series of tiny, drilled snail
shells about 75,000 years old—
were discovered in a South African
cave

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Ubuntu and African Politics : Ancient
African political or governance systems
and empires, were all based on the
same principle, the confederacy
principle, characterised by a great deal
of devolution of authority and
decentralisation of power

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Prior to European colonialism, Africa
had up to 10,000different states
and autonomous groups with distinct
languages

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Colonialism enforced
centralization in the
colonies in order to
centrally control them
from their foreign
nation states HQ

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Prior to the introduction of
democracy, Africa was
Decentralised & Community Based

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Community and decentralisation are
two fundamental characteristics of
the blockchain system

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African Legal Systems :
Arbitration is the indigenous legal
system in Africa. No courts were
required to settle disputes.
Courts are centralized. Arbitration
was decentralised

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Modern Day
Inventions by
Africans

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zElijah McCoy USA
What He Invented:
A Railroad Lubrication
Machine
1872
(origin of English
phrase “the real
McCoy”

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zMarc Hannah, USA
What He Invented:
3-D Graphics
Technology Used in
Films until today
1982

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zGerald A. Lawson, USA
What He Invented:
The Modern Home-
Video Gaming Console
1976

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zLudwick Marishane,
South Africa
What He Invented:
DryBath
2011

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Three types of sectors in economy in Africa :
Modern, Informal and Traditional.
Blockchain will boost the later two which are the majority

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Africa in the Media
In the past 100 years Africa has
been portrayed as poor and
incompetent e.g. the Ethiopian
famine in the 80’s was restricted
to one specific region, but
became the image of the country
and eventually the whole
continent, to justify food aid and
a donor based economy

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Capital Flight
It is not criminal activity alone
such as bribery, corruption or
money laundering that the
financial outflows are linked
to, but commercial tax
evasion accounts for the
biggest component and $192
Million leave Africa annually
through capital flight

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Slavery and African
Sweat Equity
In 1999, the African World
Reparations and
Repatriation Truth
Commission calculated that
the West owes $777 trillion
to Africa in sweat equity
and resource theft

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In 2018 more money
got sent to Africa by
the diaspora than
foreign aid

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Africa and Technology
 Africa has always been a fast adopter of technology as well as an
innovator of technology, for example :
 DSTV, South Africa’s biggest Pay TV Operator was the first company
in the world to broadcast digital satellite television
 Capitec, a South African retail bank, through technology has won
best bank in the world 2 years in a row (2017-2018)
 Vodacom, a South African mobile Telco, innovated the prepaid
airtime system for mobile networks

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Mobile
Technology
 Mobile technology in Africa is the
fastest growing market
 Nowhere is the effect more
dramatic than in Africa, where
mobile technology often represents
the first technology encountered
 This means that mobile technology
is the largest platform in Africa, and
can access a wide range of income
groups.
 AppsAfrica reports Mobile App
downloads will reach 98 billion on
the continent

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Elisha Owusu Akyaw,
CEO of Token Media
Elisha at 16 years old has helped raise over
$40 million in token sales through Token
Media’s marketing services.

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Africa and 4IR
 Africa is going to excel in the 4th
Industrial Revolution due to the
decentralised and community based
nature of Blockchain and 4IR that
reflects indigenous ancient systems in
its very nature

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Africa and Art
 AI and automation will be
for efficient tasks and
humans will be for
“inefficient tasks” like art,
exploration and innovation
and Africa is posed to excel
in this future new labour
eco system

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Africa’s
Partnerships
African Union : Continental
Unity is achievable in our lifetime
The AU head office was rebuilt for $200m and
was funded by China as a gift to the AU, as
Beijing continues to strengthen its support for
Africa and its unity.
BRICS : Brazil Russia India
China South Africa
Russia was instrumental in South Africa’s
liberation from the regime of apartheid and
helped militarize the liberation movement

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African Leadership
Network
 The ALN Leadership
Academy is building 25
brand new universities on
the continent that will
produce the next
generation of Africa's “Ivy
League” leaders

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Wakanda is
what Africa
WILL look like
in the next 30
years

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Spirit Tech – The 5th Industrial Revolution?