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Although Eurocentric scholars theorize the world in terms of Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression, this paper takes a different perspective. Forced to transition away from their tangible and intangible heritages, from their families and marriages, cultures, societies, polities, and economies in ways that legitimized imperial claims to res nullius (unowned resources) and terra nullius (empty land), some indigenous people wittingly and unwittingly increasingly devolved their heritages to the colonialists that benefited from the African transitions. The point here is that unlike "Bushmen" and those that practiced transhumance, contemporary Africans are forced to transition, to change and to transform away from owning and controlling their tangible and intangible resources, including land, culture, laws, religions, polities, economies, livestock, families, marriages, and so on. Whereas "Bushmen" and transhumance migrated and transitioned while retaining ownership and control over their land, forests, livestock, and so on, contemporary Africans are forced to transition in ways that divorce them from their families, marriages, cultures, religions, polities, and from ownership of their material resources. Because Eurocentric forms of transition put African institutions and resources on the chopping boards, we argue that this kind of transition is cannibalistic. Made to believe that transition is easier to accomplish without the supposed burden of repossessing ownership and control over one's resources, Africans are witnessed as disinherited and wandering around the world arguably in ways that even precolonial "Bushmen" and transhumance pastoralists would not envy. There is no justice in "transitional justice" that transitions indigenous people from their heritages.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter One - Explosive Economic Minefields in Invisible Neo-Imperial Force-fields: An Introduction to Decolonising Economies in Africa -- Introduction -- Economic Terrorism and the Ongoing Destabilisation of Africa -- Chapter Outlines -- References -- Chapter Two - Anticipating African Economic Futures - Or Is It Time to Look in the Rear View Mirrors? Land Restitution, Unemployment and the Figure of the Posthuman -- Introduction -- Vanishing Pasts and Stolen Futures: Anticipating African Economic Futurity -- Economic Saviours or Sacrificers? Posthumanist Economies and Mirages of Decolonisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three - Re-Africanisation of Economies through Ubuntu? Business and Kinship Obligations in Urban South Africa -- Introduction -- An African Pre-colonial Era History of Doing Business -- Beyond Reciprocal Cooperation as a Form of Ubuntu and Capital -- The Reciprocal Element of Ubuntu and Obligations -- Reciprocal Cooperation Influences on Kinship Relations and Obligations -- The Paradox of Balancing Kin and Business Obligations within Neoliberal Spaces -- The Variance between Western and African Approaches to Resolving Family Conflicts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Four - The Land as Economy and Economy as Land: Towards a Reappraisal of the Political Economy of Land Repossession in Contemporary South Africa -- Introduction -- The Struggling Neo-colonial Economy, Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty -- Understanding "Land Reform", Decolonisation, Pan-Africanism and Land Repossession in South Africa -- Bitterness against the Racial Past, Land Activists and the Expropriation Rhetoric -- Failures to Restore the Land Back to Africans.

AbstractGovernments during the Covid‐19 pandemic in response to the challenge of reaching as many of their citizens as quickly as possible have relied on the use of digital media communication. Various stakeholders, however, have questioned whether strategic use of digital communication by governments has been effective during the Covid‐19 health crisis. We thematically analyzed a public online bi‐country webinar and conducted a netnographic analysis of South African Health Minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize and Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services Twitter accounts to evaluate the effectiveness of government digital communication during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Stakeholders and social media analysis highlight that government digital communication has lacked engagement, falling short in assisting citizens to understand the effects of the Covid‐19 pandemic. We highlight the shortcomings of governments simply transmitting information on channels built for dialogue, the digital divide limiting reach, as well as how limited engagement opens up opportunities for misinformation.